Shortly after news broke that CIA destroyed the torture tapes, the 9/11 Commission issued a letter complaining that they had not been told of–much less been allowed to review–the torture tapes. The commission’s mandate was sweeping and it explicitly included the intelligence agencies. But the recent revelations that the C.I.A. destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda [...]

There’s a whole lot more that came out in today’s document dump while I’ve been fighting about health care. Here are the set released in response to an EFF FOIA. As a number of outlets have reported, that set includes evidence the government was inappropriately surveilling domestic groups, including the Nation of Islam. In the [...]

We’ve known for years that when Jane Harman asked Scott Muller in 2003 whether the President had authorized torture, he basically blew her off. But we now know that Muller consulted with the White House åbout how to respond to her.

More details revealed about the tension between CIA and the Department of Justice during June 2004.

Seven DCIs request that Obama interfere in the workings of DOJ to stop the torture investigation. Interestingly, Poppy Bush is not among them.

Michael Hayden appears to have claimed that the 2003 “Legal Principles” document was an OLC opinion. But OLC says–or at least said–it’s not.

John Ashcroft, like much of Congress, claims that CIA made false claims about the extent of his briefing.

The government is complaining that the Taliban is using a video of a captured soldier as propaganda. Unfortunately, the last Administration not only did the same, but bragged of it.

The tennis match over how much the CIA lies to Congress continues.

More details on the CIA IG report–due out, probably in heavily redacted form, on Friday.