attackerman.firedoglake.com - 4/24/2009
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and they're two documents. But what's the context for these two?
blogs.abcnews.com - 4/24/2009
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In a letter from the Justice Department to
a federal judge yesterday, the Obama administration announced that...
the Pentagon would turn over to the American Civil Liberties Union 44 photographs showing detainee abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq ...
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Obama Administration to Release Detainee Abuse Photos; ...
mcclatchydc.com - 4/25/2009
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mcclatchydc.com —
WASHINGTON — The CIA inspector general in 2004
found that there was no conclusive proof that waterboarding...
or other harsh interrogation techniques helped the Bush administration thwart any "specific imminent attacks," according to ...
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CIA official: no proof harsh techniques stopped terror ...
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 4/24/2009
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theplumline.whorunsgov.com —
I’ve just obtained from the National Archives the
actual request form that Dick Cheney submitted for CIA...
documents he claims will prove that torture worked. Cheney requested all of two CIA documents, a total of 21 pages. You can look at ...
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Obtained: Cheney’s Request Form Detailing The Two CIA ...
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What Cheney Wants Released
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... from his personal file. But not the photos or the tapes revealing the torture in graphic detail. Ackerman explains the possible relevance of the files Cheney wants released to his attempt to cover up the illegal program. ...
The Cheney Files
Daily Kos —
... Later Update: Ask and ye shall receive. Spencer Ackerman explains why those dates are significant. The point here is that by 2004-05, the Administration's self-justification for its torture policy was well underway. These reports are not contemporaneous accounts of what intelligence the torture yielded. Rather, the CIA and Cheney were papering the file well after the fact. ...
Cheney Cherry-Picks Intelligence (Again)
Firedoglake —
... apologists, Mark Thiessen, appears to have mentioned the "Effectiveness Memo" on Diane Rehm the other day and MiniCheney seemed to make a reference to it yesterday.
Given the timing, though, it appears that what Cheney is seeking may be a later version of the same Effectiveness Memo, invented to give Bradbury a way to claim the program was effective so he could use such a claim to get over the "shock the conscience" hurdle.
Update: See Spencer's take on this too.
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More on Cheney’s Declassification Request
The Moderate Voice —
... dated July 13th, 2004, and numbers eight pages.
The other is dated June 1st, 2005, and numbers 13 pages.
The CIA has redacted the detailed description of the documents because they’re classified. In total, Cheney requested all of 21 pages to support his claim that torture worked.
We still don’t know if we’ll ever get to see these docs, but this is a start. More soon.
Spencer Ackerman responds to a question from David Kurtz about the memo dates:
David Kurtz remarks, ...
Cheney's Campaign To Keep Lawmakers In Line On Torture
TPMMuckraker —
... aimed to ban practices like waterboarding, and that had broad support in the Senate. (In the end, the measure passed, though in a weakened form.)
This all jibes with what we know about those classified CIA memos which Cheney claims will, if declassified, show that harsh interrogation techniques produced intelligence that saved lives. Those memos, we now know, were dated July 13, 2004, and June 1, 2005.
As former TPMmuckraker Spencer Ackerman has pointed out, those dates are significant.
OK, July 13, 2004. What had happened ...
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