Today, in between reading torture memos, I burned my front lawn.

Here’s my thoughts on Walker’s al-Haramain decision.

The decision just came to me hot from a source involved in the case. Judge Walker has entered his order on al-Haramain.The court has determined to let the case precede!

One of the most troubling aspects of the Bradbury memos is the way they admit the CIA program had not been safe–particularly with respect to the way waterboarding and sleep-deprivation had been practiced–even while declaring those programs legal.

The May 10, 2005 “Techniques” memo makes it clear that the torturers who claim the Bybee memo legalized their water-boarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah are wrong.

That’s because the torturers didn’t do what the memo authorized.

Obama says the OLC memos will correct our “erroneous and inflammatory assumptions” about detainee treatment. On the contrary, the memos make it clear the degree to which John Rizzo was lying to OLC lawyers about detainee treatment.

ACLU has them posted:

August 1, 2002 John Yoo memo

First May 10, 2005 Steven Bradbury memo

Second May 10, 2005 Steven Bradbury memo

May 30, 2005 Steven Bradbury memo

And while you’re over at ACLU, consider showing them some love for all their great work prying these out of the government.

Consider this a working thread.

My thoughts on Obama’s statement on the release of the torture memos.

By reviewing the terms of the review that Holder was preparing, we may get a better sense of how the FISA program was out of compliance.

Russ Feingold points out that he has warned Congress something like this abuse of the warrantless wiretap authority would happen. Good.