Sheldon Whitehouse says we got no actionable intelligence from Abu Zubaydah through waterboarding.

Carl Levin better watch out for Liz “BabyDick” Cheney and her cries of “libel!” Because he just called her Daddy a liar. But I’m most interested in how the specific denials he gave about the content of the documents Cheney wants fleshes out the information in the May 30, 2005 Bradbury Memo on efficacy.

Carl Levin (Senator Levin–congrats for casting your 11,000th vote yesterday!) has come up with a sound suggestion to help close Gitmo: send them to MI.

Most lawmakers view the prospect of moving prisoners from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to their districts as a negative proposition. But at least one Democratic senator is open to the idea as a potential economic boost to his struggling state.

I beat the NYT to actual close reading over the weekend and it made a stink.

But Lambert documents his superior canine instincts from five years ago.

Je repete. 2004-05-09, Corrente:

Maybe there is a smoking gun. … Somebody’s got to authorize the dogs, the kennels, the handlers, and the purpose.

The SASC Report on Torture strongly suggests that CIA was following one set of guidelines, but had gotten approval from DOJ for another set of guidelines.

I want prosecutions for Bush era wrong-doing. But barring that, we need to have some accounting for what was done. Today, Pat Leahy joined others in calling for such an investigation.

The WSJ is warning Congressional Democrats not to investigate Bush’s torture policies. But there are holes in its case.

It appears that the White House plans to do the same thing the Senate Republicans intended to do last week: put their anti-union ideology over any good faith efforts to do what makes sense for GM.

The NYT does some really crappy reporting on a potential auto bridge.

Announcement for Carl Levin’s live chat tomorrow at 11AM.