About a hundred of you have pointed to this story, which reports that Lawrence Wilkerson signed a declaration to support the lawsuit of a former Gitmo detainee, Adel Hassan Hamad, stating that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld knew there were innocent people at Gitmo. Colonel Wilkerson, who was General Powell’s chief of staff when he [...]

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 [...]

See a sample of the torture team trading cards.

Rummy is basically blaming Jim Haynes for trashing the Constitution.

When the CIA ordered up an extra session of waterboarding for Abu Zubaydah, did it do so on Cheney’s orders?

Does anyone else find it ironic that the NYT is exposing the economy of influence-driven reporting behind Iraq War coverage?

There’s one source for the ABC news story that is not CIA. As rincewind notes, one of the sources refers to a “we” who received these briefings. It’s possible the source from inside the briefings is either Andy Card or Richard Myers.

Per Jeff’s suggestion, I took a closer look at Zelikow’s memo on how the CIA stiffed the 9/11 Commission on evidence relating to interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and al-Nashiri. I’ll come back and comment on it in more detail–but I was struck by how closely the requests coincided with the beginnings of the Abu Ghraib scandal and Tenet’s resignation.