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lefarkins.blogspot.com - 4/18/2009
The Role of the CIA
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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 promise, although every indication from the ...
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 4/17/2009
The CIA IG Report and the Bradbury Memos
— emptywheel.firedoglake.com — 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. (more) The CIA IG Report and the Bradbury Memos

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Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and Abused) Missing Prisoner
propublica.org - 4/17/2009
Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and Abused) Missing Prisoner
— 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 ... (more) Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and ...

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OLC Memos: Inflamatory Assumptions? Rizzo Lied to Cover for CIA Abuse
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 4/18/2009
OLC Memos: Inflamatory Assumptions? Rizzo Lied to Cover for CIA Abuse
— emptywheel.firedoglake.com — Rizzo via David Silver In his statement on the torture memos today, Obama suggested that some of... the "assumptions" about what Americans had done were wrong, and that releasing the memos would correct these "assumptions."  ... (more) OLC Memos: Inflamatory Assumptions? Rizzo Lied to Cover ...

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Whiskey Fire — ... about Rob's post here. I'm certainly not of the opinion that Rob is arguing in bad faith or defending the indefensible; sorry if it came across like that. It is a real question as to whether a prosecution of the agents involved is feasible, as a pragmatic matter. I regret the "nuts" remark; I meant more that the entire situation is nuts, not Rob, but I botched the sentence. ...

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