Here are the 13 documents John Durham said CIA could not partially release because it would endanger his investigation.

Jose Rodriguez retired and John Rizzo withdrew his nomination to be CIA General Counsel just as the CIA was becoming aware again of the torture tape destruction.

We’ve known for years that when Jane Harman asked Scott Muller in 2003 whether the President had authorized torture, he basically blew her off. But we now know that Muller consulted with the White House åbout how to respond to her.

As William Ockham has noted, there is a new–very informative–Vaughn Index and Declaration out. I’ll have much more to say about these. But for now, look at what documents 3 and 4 from the Vaughn Index tell us about the timing of the torture tape destruction. November 1, 2005: Bill Frist briefed on torture. November [...]

The reporters who did the best job with the ACORN story all had beats that led them to look at the vote fraud allegations with a local eye.

How does the dual reporting over covert ops in Pakistan impact the turf war between Leon Panetta and Dennis Blair?

There’s much that can be said about this… The college football Bowl Championship Series has hired Ari Fleischer, the former press secretary to President George W. Bush, to help improve its image. [snip] “Playoff advocates have had an easy ride where they have never been called on to explain exactly how they would create an [...]

There’s something missing from the EFF document dump: Sheldon Whitehouse’s efforts to get language from four different OLC opinions authorizing Bush’s surveillance program declassified. Not only should some of those efforts be included in the document dump–but they provide keys for understanding the communications within the document dump.

Obama’s rushing through a new EO so he doesn’t have to follow Bush’s EO on classification.

Andrew Gilligan–the reporter that revealed that the UK’s Iraq War dossier had been “sexed up”–is the reporter that got leaked the damning British Iraq War report.