I’m beginning to agree with Rayne’s comment of the other day that the only explanation for the length of the WaPo series on contractors is to please the Pulitzer committee. The other most (perhaps more) likely explanation for the style of the piece is that editors have tried so hard not to piss off the [...]

The AP story on the Salt Pit death makes it clear that–at a time when Dusty Foggo was Executive Director of CIA–he was involved in an internal review of the death. The current U.S. official insisted that the case was adequately scrutinized. The official also said a CIA accountability review board was held in connection [...]

The AP has a long article out providing details behind the Salt Pit death of a detainee named Gul Rahman–a former militant associated with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who was captured on October 29, 2002 at the home of Hekmatyar’s son-in-law, Dr. Ghairat Baheer, along with the Baheer and three others. A week later, Rahman was separated [...]

There’s a keystone to understanding the story from David Johnston (who frequently regurgitates highly motivated leaks) and Mark Mazzetti (CIA’s guy at NYT) on Dusty Foggo’s role in setting up the black sites run by the CIA: Foggo’s testimony in the torture tape investigation.

Dusty Foggo has a date with John Durham, the torture tape investigator.

RJ Hillhouse gives us the real scoop on Dusty Foggo’s additional charges. Her story undercuts the spin coming out of the CIA–that Foggo’s additional indictment proves that the CIA is willing to investigate itself.

Tommy K got a pretty tough sentence yesterday for bribing Duke Cunningham. But will we every learn just why he was allowed such a generous plea deal?

Did Brent Wilkes, facing heavy jail time because he lied about his finances to get a public defender in his second case, flip on Dusty Foggo?