What’s the scope of the SSCI investigation and where does that lead us?

David Corn reports that the SSCI has included its torture briefings in its investigation on torture–and wonders whether that might get Cheney in trouble. I’m guessing that Cheney’s briefing of SSCI may be the least of the investigation.

A look at how Cheney scammed the system to implement torture.

Jay Rockefeller appears to have demanded documents pertaining to Rizzo’s role in the Bybee Two memo in relation to his confirmation hearing. And it appears that CIA Director Michael Hayden told Jello Jay to fuck off.

The WaPo is apparently in the business of reprinting ignorant challenges without any fact-check or context.

Lindsey Graham says that if the Bush Administration were trying to commit a crime, then they wouldn’t brief Democrats on what they were doing. And, as it turns out, that’s precisely what the Administration did–not brief Democrats.

Jello Jay has finally resorted to explaining things to journalists reeeaaalllly slowly, so they can understand the things he revealed in the SSCI narrative on torture.

The CIA and SSCI disagree about key details on Senate torture briefings. So why isn’t Pat Roberts clarifying the issue?

Yesterday, I showed how Steven Bradbury’s May 30 Memo was a failed response to Congress’ insistence that the Administration consider whether its torture program complied with the 8th Amendment. Well, that’s precisely what Philip Zelikow’s dissent was about.

One of the reasons Jay Rockefeller wrote a narrative of the OLC memo process tied to torture was to document just how little the Administration gave a shit about what Congress had to say about the program–particularly it’s demand that the torture program comply with the Convention Against Torture.