Why did Daniel Levin promise an opinion solely covering the approval of waterboarding for Hassan Ghul?

Andy Worthington reports more details of Ibn Sheikh al-Libi’s movement as a detainee. He also considers the reports that al-Libi was forced to personally ID other detainees. Was he one of the people who IDed Hassan Ghul?

The CIA was writing Jack Goldsmith with details about Hassan Ghul right before Goldsmith finalized one and drafted another memo on transferring people from Iraq.

It appears Steven Bradbury wrote three memos in May 2005 to hide the authorization for waterboarding an unnamed detainee.

The NYT got a handful of emails that made it clear that Jim Comey had attempted to dissuade the Bush Administration from torture. But instead, it reported that he had approved of torture. Here’s the other stuff the NYT doesn’t seem fit to tell you about Comey’s emails.