Today is Victory In Iraq Day. For Iraqis. Well, actually, it is the day American troops officially marked their exit from urban areas to be concentrated in centralized bases in the countryside. Not everybody is celebrating.

Jay Rosen and Dan Froomkin talk about accountability.

As we speak, the CIA–including, by all appearances, John Rizzo–is reviewing the Office of Professional Responsibility’s report on OLC’s torture memos.

As if on cue, the LAT has a story profiling him.

Meet “04-309.” He went from being healthy when he was arrested on April 2, 2004 to dying three days later, apparently from torture.

Where the law is subject to some other authority and has none of its own, the collapse of the state, in my view, is not far off; but if law is the master of the government and the government is its slave, then the situation is full of promise and men enjoy all the blessings that the gods shower on a state.And thus was stated by Plato the general theory underlying

Bill Leonard, the former head of ISOO whose job David Addington tried to Pixie Dust out of existence because Leonard had the audacity to assume Dick Cheney was required to follow the same classification and declassification rules as everyone else in the executive branch, never got a chance to testify in the AIPAC trial.

It was a very thin folder.

Shouldn’t a responsible paper be as willing to constructively criticize someone polling at 65% as they are at 25%?

Well, I was just carping, in this post and comments thereto, about what a fascinating backstory must be behind the Sanford hothouse potboiler story. Ask, and ye shall receive it appears. The State from Columbia SC has a new article up on just this topic.

Sure, the repeated delays of the IG Report have set it up to be released in a classical pre-holiday weekend document dump. But the delays actually give me hope we might get substantively new declassifications.