When they Bradbury memos were released last year, Dafna Linzer noted a name that was not properly redacted in the CAT Memo. Three years after his capture, human rights groups [5] were surprised when Ghul was not included among 14 high-value detainees who were transferred out of the CIA’s black sites program and sent to [...]

As I noted yesterday (though I got the details slightly wrong), the OPR report revealed that a number of John Yoo and Patrick Philbin’s emails had been deleted (and that Goldsmith’s had been deleted but were subsequently recovered). OLC initially provided us with a relatively small number of emails, files, and draft documents. After it [...]

Daniel Levin, when he testified before HJC last year, said he did not speak with David Addington–or anyone else at OVP–during the drafting of his 2004 torture memo. He seems to have been the only torture memo author who did not communicate directly with Addington during the drafting of the memo.

Dan Levin wrote a memo in September 2004 that reveals certain details about the torture program.

We’ve know what the “Other Intelligence Activities” referenced in the IG Report were for years. What the IG Report confirms, however, is that these aspects of the program were the ones that disturbed Comey and Goldsmith.

We have long known that John Ashcroft was not properly read into the illegal domestic surveillance program Senator Whitehouse suggested as much when Attorney General Gonzales testified in July 2007. And both Gonzales and Robert Mueller revealed that John Ashcroft–from his ICU bed–complained that his advisors had not been able to get read into the program and as a result he was ill-informed about the program.

But the IG Report raises new

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

There’s an April 22, 2005 fax that Steven Bradbury relied on for his May 10, 2005 “Combined” memo that totally dismantles the premise of the May 10, 2005 “Techniques” memo.

Cheney’s CYA document from 2005? It comes from the day after Alberto Gonzales purportedly tried to convince the Principals Committee not to support torture.

The NYT claims that Jim Comey agreed that waterboarding was legal. But that’s not what they show. Rather, they show that Jim Comey probably agreed that waterboarding did not violate 18 USC 2340-2340A, which is just one of the laws that govern torture in this country.