Last night, as I was beginning my catalog of the interrogation reports used in the 9/11 Report, the former Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission was on Rachel Maddow, elaborating on his Foreign Policy article where he revealed how the Bush Administration destroyed his objections to the May 2005 Bradbury Memos.

Anonymous Liberal had a very good take on Zelikow’s story (which basically matches what bmaz said to me via email).

The origins of the decision to use the “enhanced interrogation techniques” on prisoners in the “war on terror”: the idea originated with a psychologist with the SERE program. I would love to talk to that guy, under oath.

The SSCI just released a narrative–originally requested by Jello Jay–of the general history of torture under the Bush Administration, including, purportedly, all the OLC memos that support torture (though it doesn’t include the 2003 one Michael Hayden referenced the other day).

Senate intelligence panel confirms my scoop on the 2007 OLC memo

Team Franken filed a motion around lunchtime yesterday with the Minnesota Supreme Court for an expedited case schedule for the appeal lodged on Monday by Norm Coleman’s people. And when they say “expedited”, they mean it: They call for the record of the Election Contest Court proceedings to be delivered to the MNSC by the close of business Wednesday (that’s today), with briefing to be completed (and oral arguments to start) by Monday, May 4 at the latest.

As we found out in Part 1 of the Chronicles, US District Judge Jed Rakoff is a man who knows a lot about the First Amendment and a lot about the dirty laundry on Wall Street. So, it was fortuitous or ironic (depending on your point of view) that the Empror’s Club protitution ring case landed in his lap.

As we pointed discovered, Elliot Spitzer had earned the hatred of powerful men

The torture apologists are out in force, insisting that torture produces useful information. Cheney’s even promising to release information from CIA cataloging all the useful information that came from torture. But we don’t have to wait for Cheney. We already have a way to assess how much intelligence we got directly from torturing Abu Zubaydah: the 9/11 Report. And the 9/11 Report tells us AZ only provided 10 useful piece of intelligence during his interrogations.

It’s an honor to have Nathaniel Raymond here today — his work along with PHR’s has been an example of speaking out against the darkness time and time again. They should be commended for it.

One of the most popular conservative blogs on the Internets thinks straight kids should maintain the right to put those icky fags and dykes in their place.

When the CIA ordered up an extra session of waterboarding for Abu Zubaydah, did it do so on Cheney’s orders?