“The main one is that everyone was worried about some kind of follow-up attack (after 9/11). But for most of 2002 and into 2003, Cheney and Rumsfeld, especially, were also demanding proof of the links between al Qaida and Iraq that (former Iraqi exile leader Ahmed) Chalabi and others had told them were there.”

The SASC Report on Torture strongly suggests that CIA was following one set of guidelines, but had gotten approval from DOJ for another set of guidelines.

According to the CIA public affairs office, Rizzo is still Acting General Counsel.

Up until 4am reading the Senate Armed Services Committee with everyone over at Marcy’s place. Here’s what I’m left with:

. Serial sadists Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell, the psychologists who were the first to rationalize and implement torture, were not members of the CIA and are not covered under Obama’s immunity blanket.

Let’s see if I have the chain of events that led to this searing SASC report on American use of torture techniques on prisoners in order here. . .

• Good news.
• And this is relevant because…?
• Really dumb.
• Layering illegal on top of illegal.
• No Riviera vacays for the Bushies.
• Re-education camps for everyone!
• Jane Harman is shocked, shocked.
• More good news.
• Rummy, you got some splainin’ to do. 

The Ticking Time Bomb was us.

Madeline Kahn – I’m So Tired from Blazing Saddles.

In a feeble attempt to improve upon “teabagging,” Newt Gingrich tries to twitter a joke about oral sex.

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