Did Jay Bybee not know about the John Yoo letter where he told John Rizzo how to game the torture statute?

It’s appropriate that Glenn Beck is being hosted by a state Chamber of Commerce from a state that is basically in a depression.

Michele Brown gets a job–in no time–at a firm deeply involved in the Chris Christie Deferred Prosecution Agreement scam.

Because journalists won’t call out much of the teabagger and deather opposition to Obama’s policies for what it is–racism–they get away with pretending that the public option is unpopular in places where it really isn’t.

When CIA had a torture training session on July 1, 2002, they said everything but waterboarding was legal.

We got off to an early start on Trash Talk because of the first game of the NFL season Thursday night. Just so everybody has an easily accessible place to jaw about the games, and especially the big Ohio State-USC tilt and the rest of the Sunday and Monday NFL games, here is another Trash thread.A couple of comments are in order.

The JPRA memo sent to DOD and via Jim Haynes to CIA and OLC on July 26, 2002 described the torture techniques later “improvised” by CIA’s torturers.

As it stands, the MaxTax might work out to a billion dollar reward to Wal-Mart for paying its workers such crappy wages.

As the torture apologists tee up for another attempt at justifying torture by claiming it worked, it’s worth remembering that just after the CIA finished waterboarding KSM, they wrote a report acknowledging that he had been lying to them.

There’s a number of bread crumbs to suggest that the Durham investigation will net the lawyers.