powerlineblog.com - 4/17/2009
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The Obama administration has made public four memos that were authored by the Justice Department between 2002 and 2005, in which lawyers from DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel responded to requests by the CIA for legal opinions as to whether harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 4/16/2009
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Here are the OLC torture memos just released
by the Justice Department... An 18-page memo [PDF], dated...
August 1, 2002, from Jay Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, OLC, to John A. Rizzo, General Counsel CIA. A 46-page memo [PDF], dated May 10, ...
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Torture Memos Released
propublica.org - 4/17/2009
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propublica.org —
A newly released memo inadvertently reveals the name
of a 'ghost detainee' Among the OLC memos released...
today , one appears to inadvertently reveal that a top al-Qaida suspect captured in northern Iraq in January 2004 was held by the CIA in a secret ...
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Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and ...
thedailybeast.com - 4/17/2009
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thedailybeast.com —
Obama Torture Memos Former Reagan Justice Department official
Bruce Fein writes that Obama's decision to release CIA...
memos without prosecuting Bush administration officials flouts his constitutional duty. On Thursday, April 16th, in response to a ...
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How Obama Excused Torture
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Morning Skim: The Bush Torture Memos
Opinionator —
... , but in the way that the OLC acted for the CIA. These memos are basically colloquys between John Rizzo, then the acting CIA legal counsel and either Jay Bybee (in 2002) and Steve Bradbury (in 2005), the OLC chiefs, in which Rizzo asks OLC what the CIA can legally inflict on detainees. OLC, like a medieval priest, finds the right incantation to transform a dark act into a holy one. John Hinderaker at Powerline : If you [read the memos], you will see that DOJ’s lawyers grappled carefully and fairly with issues that are, by their nature, both difficult and distasteful. I find ...
4/17: Letting The Light In
Blogometer —
... . While a few conservative bloggers are defending the techniques described in the memos, most are either declining to comment or are ...
In The Wake Of War Crimes III
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... president yesterday said that "withholding these memos would only
serve to deny facts that have been in the public domain for some time."
If the facts are already out there, why the need for yesterday? Unless
you're looking to drum up support for prosecutions?
Torture at the hands of Americans should never be swept under a rug.
But some adult in this administration ought to be taking the headlines
they are making deadly seriously.
John Hinderaker echos Abe Greenwald: ...you will see that DOJ's lawyers grappled carefully and ...
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huffingtonpost.com 4/18/2009 — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's release of classified Bush-era memos on harsh CIA interrogations was delayed for nearly a month in part because of strenuous objections from four former intelligence directors.
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WWW.samefacts.com 4/27/2009 — It was only a matter of time before the torture debate turned on the CIA. Matthew Yglesias has done it, suggesting that we "consider" abolishing the agency. This would be a great idea if it weren't completely wrong. Let me suggest just a few reasons why:
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attackerman.firedoglake.com 4/17/2009 —
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These are medieval documents, these Office of Legal Counsel memos. And not just in the sense that torture techniques like the waterboard date back to medieval times , but in the way that the OLC acted for the CIA. These ...
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