A second working thread for the DOJ OIG report on torture–now with a searchable text!

Over the course of the 17-month long CIA OIG investigation into interrogation techniques, it made five referrals to DOJ’s Criminal Division. That sure suggests that when the CIA destroyed evidence the CIA OIG had reviewed over the course of their investigation, they had reason to believe that evidence was evidence of a federal crime.

The CIA prevented DOJ’s OIG from interviewing Abu Zubaydah for their report on detainee interrogation methods. As when they destroyed the tapes of Abu Zubaydah’s interrogation, CIA seems to have been intent on preventing any evidence of what they did to Zubaydah from coming out.

Do you think it’s a coincidence that DOD first provided its declassification comments to the DOJ IG report on torture in the weeks after Jim Haynes left, just three days before DOD declassified the Yoo torture memo?

The scope of DOJ’s IG report on torture says as much as the rest of the conclusion: when DOJ appealed to the National Security Council to resolve the problems created by CIA’s and DOD’s use of torture, those appeals went nowhere.

A new article from the Guardian raises new questions about whether Myers was the source from the Principals Committee for ABC.

In his apparent denials that we torture, Bush has basically stated that “Anything we do to the end of protecting the American people is within the law.” Bush has really been parroting the Yoo Memo for years.

The press still hasn’t noticed that the President of the United States just admitted that he signed off on torture. The WaPo believes it has, but it appears to be unclear on the difference between Alberto Gonzales and George Bush.

Is Pope Benedict blowing off his State Dinner because he doesn’t want to associate with a torturer?

George Bush admitted to approving torture. And no one seems to care.