Thai judges refused to extradite Viktor Bout for trial in the US because, they say, Thailand does not recognize Colombia’s FARC as a terrorist organization.

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As I mentioned above, I’ve been prepping for a panel on Saturday on torture. And so I’ve been reviewing all the things DOJ promised us in mid June or early July that they still haven’t delivered on: The OPR Report, the torture investigation, and–as Daphne Eviatar points out–the new State Secrets policy.

The LAT says the torturers never saw the Bybee Two Memo placing limits on how they executed waterboarding. But chances are very good they saw a memo authorizing far more abusive waterboarding.

DOD won’t let Ramzi bin al-Shibh’s lawyers know what drove him crazy.

Frank DiPascali, Madoff’s finance chief, is pleading guilty tomorrow.

Why isn’t Chuck Schumer our Majority Leader?

I find it rather interesting that George Bush started pushing fusion centers the day that Risen and Lichtblau exposed the illegal domestic surveillance program.

Have you noticed that we’re a quarter of the way through August and Obama has not yet cleared any brush?

The LAT returns to the story of the purportedly imminent torture prosecution.