More OLC Memos: "The Office of Legal Counsel, responding to a Freedom of Information Act request, has now released a treasure trove of new memoranda discussing the Bush Administration's war on terror policies," writes Prof. Jack Balkin at Balkinization. "The highlights include memos by Jack Goldsmith telling the CIA not to do anymore waterboarding in May of 2004, and a memo by his successor at the OLC, Daniel Levin, telling the CIA they can go ahead and do it on August 6, 2004. There are also two memoranda from John Yoo arguing for the President's right to use military force at any time without congressional approval and offering CIA interrogators a good faith defense to torture."
Dick Cheney is Mad: From Christy Hardin Smith: "Why is Cheney so irate? Because bluster gets him column inches without having any real fear of direct questions of his own involvement. Why? Because that just isn't how things are done in the Beltway. No inconvenient truths that might rock your access boat."
Torture Doesn't Work, So ... Richard Haas, president of the Council of Foreign Relations, is being held to account for what he said during an interview on Morning Joe, including this line: "I really think putting this in legal channels as opposed to just the policy channels is something, just like the politics, we as a society, will regret. We need to look at all of our tools. We may reject some of these things. Let's say on balance they're not worth it. But other things we may say to do it given who we're up against."
"I'm with Jack Bauer on this one." That's the quote from Fox's Chris Wallace. Here's the clip.
Durham has a Grand Jury Hearing Scheduled Next Month? Already? "Durham has been officially investigating the torture itself (as opposed to the torture tape destruction) for just four days. And his mandate is--at least officially--just a review of the earlier cases. Yet he's already scheduling testimony before the grand jury next month?" asks Marcy Wheeler.
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