A few weeks ago, Liz “BabyDick” Cheney refused to deny that her Daddy was the “prime mover” on torture. Yesterday, she refused to deny that he had requested waterboarding be used with an Iraqi to drum up al Qaeda-Iraq ties.

The WaPo is apparently in the business of reprinting ignorant challenges without any fact-check or context.

There’s a footnote in the latest al-Haramain ruling that suggests they’re trying to cordon off the data mining aspects of the program so as to limit litigation moving forward (and disclosure to al-Haramain) to the actual wiretapping part of the program.

Guess what? Al-Haramain and the government are continuing to argue over what information al-Haramain gets to sue the government for illegally wiretapping it.

Anyone else feel like we’re watching the Scooter Libby trial again, what with all of Dick Cheney’s hacks out protecting him?

Walter Pincus gave two spooks anonymity to claim that CIA didn’t waterboard KSM and Abu Zubaydah to trump up ties between al Qaeda and Iraq. But those two anonymous sources fall fall short of credibility, and even faller short of denying that torture was used to elicit such ties.

A lot of people are nervous about Panetta’s statement in response to Pelosi’s accusation that CIA lied. It makes a lot more sense when you consider it against the background of the torture tape destruction.

I suggested yesterday that one of the explanations for the CIA’s unreliable record of briefings on torture and terrorism in 2002 and 2003 might reflect an attempt to hide certain information.

Did CIA not reveal they were torturing detainees to dodge any question about the accuracy of claims about Iraq intelligence? 

While we don’t know the full schedule of briefings on Iraq intelligence, the schedule of intelligence documents pertaining to Iraqi ties

I’ve been reluctant to embrace suggestions that torture, iraq, and Valerie Plame were all going to coalesce into one linked story. But it is increasingly looking like that may be the case.

Fox gets into the irresponsible reporting act now, presenting clear evidence of legal wrong-doing as yet another gotcha of Nancy Pelosi.