You and I are not the audience for Obama’s answer to this question. The audience for this answer is those who idolize Churchill, conservatives who place national security above all. The audience for this answer is a group of Republicans who can be persuaded on this point.

Ultimately, though, to the question “Did the Bush Administration sanction torture,” is, “Whatever legal rationales were used, it was a mistake.”

Why we need a modern day Pecora Committee to shatter the Banking Culture myth. Part One of a series.

Jane co-hosts with Nico Pitney of the Huffington Post, David Grant of the Collegiate Times and Virginia blogger Ben Tribbett of Not Larry Sabato.

Ohio pig isolates are the most closely related to the new Texas and California human isolates.

Jay Bybee issues a legalistic statement that attempts to contest stories of his own doubts about the torture memos.

Malcolm Nance on SERE, and why sleep deprivation isn’t about quality information.

Glenn Thrush once again shows more interest in a stupid beltway dispute then the evidence of criminality.

This morning, “Suck on This” Friedman explains to the little people why torturing Arabs was kind of a bummer, but probably necessary — and reprises the flypaper theory.

We’ll be live streaming the Virgina Governor’s debate tonight starting at 7:30 ET. I’ll be co-hosting with Nico Pitney of the Huffington Post, David Grant of the Collegiate Times and Virginia blogger Ben Tribbett of Not Larry Sabato.

Things are getting quite heated after the latest poll shows McAuliffe with a commanding lead, though there’s an argument over whether the poll is an outlier or not (New Dominion Project says yes)

New Yorker Editor and Staff Writer Hendrik Hertzberg, novelist Walter Mosley, Faye Wattleton, and Miles Rappaport on Obama’s first 100 days and the next 900.