This is going to be another weedy post… I wanted to put two totally bureaucratic pages (PDF 23-24) from the recent FOIA dump into the context of the other known documents in the chronology. The first page is an “Executive Correspondence Routing Sheet,” sent from CIA General Counsel Scott Muller around top CIA management for [...]

A bunch of former DOJ bigwigs just wrote a seemingly pointless letter to Pat Leahy to assure him that David Margolis does not have a partisan–and they mean Left-Right partisan–bias. (h/t Main Justice) I say “pointless,” to begin with, because after last Friday’s flaccid hearing on the OPR report, is anyone actually imagining that Pat [...]

One of the defenses that John Yoo and Jay Bybee made in response to the OPR Report with which I’m sympathetic is the argument that, if they are going to be held accountable, so should all the other Executive Branch lawyers who approved of torture. Jay Bybee even included a pretty little graph of all [...]

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 [...]

John Conyers has submitted three more bills designed to increase versigh tof the executive branch.

A review of how Ashcroft’s testimony to HJC on torture matches what we learned in the CIA IG Report.

I’ve been promising to return to the way that the CIA IG Report discusses the Congressional and Executive Branch approval for the torture program.

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

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

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