Earlier, I suggested the CIA didn’t want to give Judge Hellerstein the earliest deliberative documents on Abu Zubaydah. It appears they don’t want to reveal details of their own investigation into waterboarding, either.

Did the CIA cherry-pick which documents it gave Judge Hellerstein to avoid turning over incriminating cables?

Leon Panetta claims he’s not trying to hide evidence of criminal wrongdoing by hiding the torture cables. And he’s lying.

Jason Leopold reported on and posted a late update to the ongoing torture tape FOIA exchange. If I read the latest exchange correctly, Special Prosecutor John Durham is at least identifying–and potentially making available through FOIA–a number of recent documents on the torture tape destruction.

Today’s letter does two things. First, it withdraws John Durham’s objection to Judge Hellerstein’s order that:

The government shall produce documents relating to the destruction of the

Judge Hellerstein, after reviewing some contents from the CIA’s torture tape library, has taken the next step in forcing CIA to turn over some of that information to the ACLU.

In addition to the news that the CIA destroyed 92 torture tapes, DOJ has informed Judge Hellerstein that we will shortly get a list of all the witnesses who may have viewed those tapes.