John Yoo tells us that we’re silly to worry about his disappearing emails because DOJ emails are unclassified. (h/t Jason Leopold) In fact, the investigation is the gift that keeps on giving. On Friday, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) excoriated Margolis’ superior officer because OPR claimed it could not access 2002 e-mails from me and [...]

As we learned in an SJC hearing last summer (where this exchange took place), in addition to giving Jay Bybee and John Yoo two opportunities to respond to the OPR report, DOJ also let CIA review the report. That’s why I was so interested to see details of a John Rizzo letter (dated October 5, [...]

One of the defenses that John Yoo and Jay Bybee made in response to the OPR Report with which I’m sympathetic is the argument that, if they are going to be held accountable, so should all the other Executive Branch lawyers who approved of torture. Jay Bybee even included a pretty little graph of all [...]

[Note: this is a working thread, not a finished document. As such, I may not pay as much attention to typos as in finished posts.] OPR Report on torture [for searchable copies, go here) Memorandum for the Attorney General OPR Final Report OPR 1st Draft Report OPR 2nd Draft Report Yoo Response to OPR 2nd [...]

When they Bradbury memos were released last year, Dafna Linzer noted a name that was not properly redacted in the CAT Memo. Three years after his capture, human rights groups [5] were surprised when Ghul was not included among 14 high-value detainees who were transferred out of the CIA’s black sites program and sent to [...]

Update, 3/9/10: Rotunda says he is not the person with whom Yoo had this email exchange. See this post for a discussion of the further puzzles that presents. I apologize to Rotunda for assuming he must be the person in the report. There’s an interesting passage in the OPR report (PDF pages 58-59 in the [...]

The National Archives has noticed what we all did: somehow the emails via which John Yoo coordinated with (I’m guessing) the White House on the Bybee Memo disappeared. They’ve written DOJ to get some answers. Here’s the letter. In response, as Michael Isikoff reports, DOJ is mouthing the same kind of blather that Gary Grindler [...]

A few weeks ago, ABC reported that a former Toyota Product Liability lawyer had accused Toyota of hiding information in product liability suits. The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed his documents and found that they showed Toyota hid internal data recording Toyota testing data, collected in an electronic “Books of Knowledge.” Chariman Towns has written Yoshimi [...]

Update: The Nation’s Chris Hayes and I had a chat about the OPR report here. The OPR Report [searchable PDF here] notes–but does not call much attention to–a Goldsmith footnote on a draft of his attempt to replace the March 2003 Yoo Memo that had authorized torture for us in DOD. In a footnote designed [...]

SJC is having its hearing on the OPR report today–with a witness who appears not to have been involved in either the corrupt process of writing the memos or the corrupt process of whitewashing the report. See here for Jeff Kaye’s take on the witness, Gary Grindler. You can follow the commmittee feed here. Leahy: [...]