The AP has a long article out providing details behind the Salt Pit death of a detainee named Gul Rahman–a former militant associated with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who was captured on October 29, 2002 at the home of Hekmatyar’s son-in-law, Dr. Ghairat Baheer, along with the Baheer and three others. A week later, Rahman was separated [...]

[Note: this is a working thread, not a finished document. As such, I may not pay as much attention to typos as in finished posts.] OPR Report on torture [for searchable copies, go here) Memorandum for the Attorney General OPR Final Report OPR 1st Draft Report OPR 2nd Draft Report Yoo Response to OPR 2nd [...]

I my last post, I showed that the CIA asked DOJ to approve the use of mock burial, but DOJ refused. I noted that the ICRC report doesn’t appear to show that Abu Zubaydah was subjected to mock burial (though he was subject to confinement in both a small and a larger box). But what [...]

Miguel Estrada has one thing he wants you to know about John Yoo: 9/11.

Will Miguel Estrada face Sonia Sotomayor in one of her early cases on SCOTUS, as Estrada tries to defend John Yoo’s crappy lawyering?