Crazy Pete Hoekstra wrote a very good description, in 2006, about how serious is the obligation to inform Congress of CIA’s activities. He seems to have forgotten that description now.

I’ve got to correct something I said yesterday about Bob Graham. I reported that Graham said that CIA had given him two erroneous dates for briefings. They gave erroneous dates for three briefings.

To get his propaganda documents, Dick Cheney may have to ask the Center for Constitutional Rights nicely.

Mark Mazzetti continues to work hard to propagate Porter Goss’ spin.

This time, with Nora Dennehy, who is investigating the US Attorney firing (particularly that of David Iglesias):

Former top White House official Karl Rove will be interviewed tomorrow as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the firing of U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration, according to two sources familiar with the appointment.

Pat Leahy made it clear yesterday that Jay Bybee had blown off Leahy’s invitation to testify before SJC. I expect we’ll be hearing more about this in the future.

Lawrence Wilkerson says Dick Cheney ordered Ibn Sheikh al-Libi to be waterboarded in February 2002.

Pelosi has confirmed something I’ve been pointing out for weeks. When the CIA briefed Pelosi and Goss on September 4, 2002, it told them that waterboarding was not being employed.

The CIA comes to Congress and withholds information about the timing and the use of this subject. We later find out that it had been taking place before they even briefed us about the legal opinions and told us that they

Bob Graham says that when he asked when CIA briefed him on torture, they gave him two briefing dates when no briefing had even occurred.

A number of people are out today reporting that the 9/11 Report relies on the information from detainees who had been tortured. That is true. Though most of the information came after the worst torture stopped.