I could certainly be incorrect.
But that’s how I read it: “Gonzo, listen you jackass, I’ll write you a list you, moron, since otherwise you’re going to flip out and forget one or two of these items…”

It sounds like some other “nasty” stuff about these torture techniques, confirming that the Memos were being addressed to a fictional and sanitized version [The first Bradbury Memo actually alludes to that with all of its disclaimers]. But what it also says is that Comey testifying on a stand or in a Hearing may be even more dangerous to the Principals than we knew, and may suggest a possible reason for the pre-emptive strike by the distortions in the New York Times article.

Quick question…

As you would build a case against Cheney and co on torture, would you use the Comey emails or any evidence Comey makes reference to (legally mark up memos and his own notes) in those emails as evidence?

I agree to some extent with what Mary said in the next post about some CYA being part of the position and not necessarily a foul thing. I will give Comey that; anything beyond that appears totally ludicrous to me. In my mind, a man that authorized what I laid out in @7 above, that permitted the perfidy of the Bush/Cheney torture program and that blithely reauthorized the still illegal wiretapping and gross surveillance program soon as his and his precious Ashcroft’s ass were covered deserves nothing in the way of admiration, and he sure as hell is no hero. You are entitled to your worship in peace, I have said mine.

In my own, very tiny, little way, I’ve also ‘left breadcrumbs’ and ‘walked out with documents’ that I filed carefully away to assist with lawsuits that I hoped would come. It takes focus, time, and energy to do that — it’s a damn sight easier to simply sign off on something without taking the extra time to think ahead about what language, what topics, what data, what details are going to be most relevant to someone 2 or 4 years down the line.

It’s a lot easier to just sign off and cover your own ass; reading the exerpts shown here suggest to me that Comey was deliberately leaving the best trail that he knew how.

And he was doing it at a time when he knew that he may well have been surveilled by OVP and the NSA, when he surely realized that K-k-k-karl Rove was the person pulling Kyle Sampson’s puppet strings, when Alice Fisher was screwing with prosecutions in places like Alabama.

Bear in mind, also, that Jack Abramoff apparently wasn’t indicted until August of 2005; at the time that Comey was leaving his breadcrumbs, Delay still had an iron grip on the House, and Frist the Senate. The BushCheney GOP appeared at that time to have a stranglehold on US government.

I think that Bradbury is the most likely culprit here, as he is in the most delicate position of all of this rogue’s gallery, given that at the time he had the most to gain from pleasing his doms. As I recall Bradbury’s pissing backwards on the early memos was featured prominently in the press when the last round of memos was released. No accident, that. Bradbury’s worried about a whole lot more than his reputation.