The Role of the CIA
lefarkins.blogspot.com 4/18/2009 — Spencer has some thoughts: And here's how it's problematic for Obama, Blair and Panetta to indicate to the CIA that they'll stand by CIA officers who relied on OLC guidance for the torture. Marc Ambinder observes that there's some wiggle room in that ...

Debunking the Torture Apologists’ “Half the Intelligence” Claim
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 4/20/2009 — image courtesy of quapan In another thread, Bob Schacht wrote , BTW, according to CNN, Haynes and Mukasey are claiming that “half” of what we “know” about Al Qaeda came from torture sessions. Did they really write that, and if so, I’m ...

What The CIA Did
politics.theatlantic.com 4/17/2009 — The Justice Department today released four internal memorandums that supplied the legal basis for the program of torture and aggressive interrogation techniques used at so-called CIA "Black Sites" during the Bush administration and, at the same time, ...

Don't Kill the CIA
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:

Exclusive Text: What Waterboarding Revealed
directorblue.blogspot.com 4/22/2009 — Not one of the liberal pundits decrying the use of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs) appears to have read the complete set of memos released by President Obama. I know this because I cannot find a single, plain-text version of the scanned memos anywhere on the web. And, the most critical ...

We Have Only Begun
commentarymagazine.com 4/25/2009 — If CIA operatives were not already dispirited (and they are, according to a former CIA official) by the events of this week and the threat of ongoing litigation, then the upcoming release of some 44 photos of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan will ...

Bush’s Willing Torturers? OLC Revelations Demand Investigation
attackerman.firedoglake.com 4/17/2009 — photo by craigmorsels 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 ...

More errors in CIA interrogation briefing list
news.yahoo.com 5/21/2009 — WASHINGTON New questions surfaced Wednesday about the accuracy of a CIA document meant to settle who in Congress knew about severe interrogation methods approved by the Bush administration . Three new errors appeared to emerge in the CIA's matrix of ...

About Those "Torture Memos"
powerlineblog.com 4/17/2009 — 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 ...

Obama Won't Prosecute Past Waterboarding
cbsnews.com 4/16/2009 — Administration Tells CIA Officials That Justice Department Doesn't Plan To Charge Them For Harsh Interrogation Techniques Comments Comments 104 WASHINGTON, April 16, 2009 (CBS/AP) Seeking to move beyond what he calls a "a dark and painful chapter in ...

No Prosecution for Waterboarding — WSJ.com: Politics And Policy 4/17/2009
The White House granted legal immunity to CIA officials who followed Justice Department guidelines in carrying out harsh interrogations of terror suspects after 9/11.

An interrogation memo — L.A. Times - Politics 4/17/2009
Excerpts from an Aug. 1, 2002, memo granting the CIA permission to use certain interrogation techniques on suspected Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah. > 'Suffocation and incipient ...

NYT: CIA officials inflated suspect's importance — msnbc.com: Politics 4/18/2009
The first use of waterboarding and other rough treatment against a prisoner from Al Qaeda was ordered by CIA officials despite the belief that the prisoner had already told them all he knew.

Memo: 2 al Qaeda leaders waterboarded 266 times — CNN.com - Politics 4/20/2009
CIA interrogators used waterboarding at least 266 times on two top al Qaeda suspects, according to a Bush-era Justice Department memo released by the Obama administration.