online.wsj.com - 4/16/2009
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EVAN PEREZ and SIOBHAN GORMAN WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is expected to release some operational details of a Central Intelligence Agency interrogation program and its legal rationale, while seeking to keep secret the names of detainees and the way techniques were applied to ...
salon.com - 4/16/2009
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salon.com —
(updated below) In a just-released statement, Barack Obama
announced that -- in response to an ACLU FOIA...
lawsuit -- he has ordered four key Bush-era torture memos released, and the Associated Press, citing anonymous Obama sources, is reporting that ...
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Obama to release OLC torture memos; promises no ...
nytimes.com - 4/16/2009
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nytimes.com —
WASHINGTON The Justice Department made public on
Thursday detailed memos describing harsh interrogation techniques used by...
the Central Intelligence Agency , as President Obama said that C.I.A. operatives who carried out the techniques would not be ...
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Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the C.I.A.
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
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Portions of CIA Memos Expected to Be Released
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... lawyers have favored a full release. Administration lawyers on Wednesday were still deliberating what portions of three memos would be released. The two officials said the administration plans to propose redacting parts of the memos. In addition to the prisoner names, certain operational details of interrogations are expected to stay secret, they said. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs declined to comment Wednesday on how the administration plans to handle the memos. Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123983903791623013.html
Obama's Secret Laws?
TalkLeft —
Glenn Greenwald gets to the heart of today's big issue - Whether President Obama will release the Bush torture memos: I want to underscore one vital point about this controversy that is continuously overlooked and will be undoubtedly distorted today in the event of non-disclosure: these documents are not intelligence documents. They are legal documents and, more specifically, they constitute what can only be described as secret law under which the U.S. has been governed during the Bush era. Thus, the question posed by the release of these OLC ...
Hullabaloo —
... This is great, but there isn't enough information here to explain whether key elements of the memos would be redacted. The Wall Street Journal says: ...
Secret Interrogation Memos to be Released
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
... The Wall Street Journal says that while "some operational details" of the interrogation
program will be revealed, the administration will "keep secret the names
of detainees and the way techniques were applied to particular prisoners."
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Sister Toldjah —
Portions of CIA Memos Expected to Be Released
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Debunking the Torture Apologists’ “Half the Intelligence” Claim
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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
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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 ...
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 ...
Bush’s Willing Torturers? OLC Revelations Demand Investigation
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 ...
More Things That Are Missing
obsidianwings.blogs.com 4/20/2009 — by hilzoy A couple of other things that are missing from the torture memos : First , the memos cite various legal precedents for the definition of torture. They are particularly fond of Mehinovic v. Vuckovic , which involved "a course of conduct ...
The CIA IG Report and the Bradbury Memos
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 4/17/2009 — One of the most troubling aspects of the Bradbury memos is the way they admit the CIA program had not been safe--particularly with respect to the way waterboarding and sleep-deprivation had been practiced--even while declaring those programs legal.
Editors: What the Memos Mean
article.nationalreview.com 4/22/2009 — The 'torture' memos show an administration taking law and security seriously.
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