The NYT is out with another report of the Pentagon stat that 14% of those released after being held in Gitmo subsequently engaged in terrorism.

An unreleased Pentagon report concludes that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from the detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has returned to terrorism or militant activity, according to administration officials.

Greg Sargent tries to pin down Porter Goss on his weasely statement that Nancy Pelosi should have known that torture techniques “were to be employed.” But Goss declined to be pinned down further.

Bob Graham clarified that, in addition to the Office of Congressional Affairs, there were others in his September 2002 briefing purportedly on torture.

Obama just issued a signing statement that seems to reflect a desire to “look forward” on financial fraud in teh same way he’s looking forward on all Bush’s abuse of power.

Jason Leopold reported on and posted a late update to the ongoing torture tape FOIA exchange. If I read the latest exchange correctly, Special Prosecutor John Durham is at least identifying–and potentially making available through FOIA–a number of recent documents on the torture tape destruction.

Today’s letter does two things. First, it withdraws John Durham’s objection to Judge Hellerstein’s order that:

The government shall produce documents relating to the destruction of the

We’ve now discovered errors in 7 of the 40 briefings listed in the CIA briefing list.

Darrell Issa got schooled by Tweety, who saw through Issa’s latest grandstanding attempt to smear Pelosi. More interesting, though, is the accusation Issa refers to–Paul Kanjorski’s allegation that CIA trumped up photos of “Iraq UAVs” to add to the case for war.

Carl Levin (Senator Levin–congrats for casting your 11,000th vote yesterday!) has come up with a sound suggestion to help close Gitmo: send them to MI.

Most lawmakers view the prospect of moving prisoners from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to their districts as a negative proposition. But at least one Democratic senator is open to the idea as a potential economic boost to his struggling state.

Yes, I’m glad that Arlen “the Scrapple formerly known as Haggis” Specter has come out in support of Nancy Pelosi’s suggestion that CIA misled her in her September 2002 briefing.

“The CIA has a very bad record when it comes to — I was about to say ‘candid’; that’s too mild — to honesty,” Specter, a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a lunch address to the American Law

April 13, 2002; May 6, 2002, May 20, 2002; May 23, 2002; May 28, 2002…

Those are some of the most important dates from from the log of “all contemporaneous and derivitive records” on Abu Zubaydah’s interrogation from 2002.

Here’s why they’re important.

April 13, 2002: This is the first date, the CIA claims, for which it has any records.