When Was the Evaluation Written?

The report was almost certainly written in July, not long before it was passed to OLC. It likely was part of a packet of material used to present the “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques,” including waterboarding, as potentially “safe” to use.

There are plenty of indications in the report that Zubaydah had been under observation and interrogated prior to the drafting of the report (emphasis added).

Michele Bachmann held a town hall forum at Lake Elmo that went pretty much the way you would expect it to have gone.

Phoenix Woman wrote yesterday (actually, twice) about the emerging Village contention that, why, of course Ted Kennedy would have swiftly and gleefully traded away the public option to pass something that could be called healthcare reform legislation, however useless the end result might be.

The latest attempt to make this leaden trial balloon fly comes from columnist Steven Pearlstein in this morning’s Washington Post.

America’s Stupidest Blogger™ continues down Artillery Road:

Four years, and it’s still shocking. Not the storm — as bad as that was — but the four years that have been squandered trying to put people’s lives and communities back together.

Lord, have mercy . . .

Some pretty first-rate concern trolling here on “Morning Joe.”

How could John Durham be scheduling appearances before the grand jury already unless those appearance came out of his torture tape destruction?

For Ted Kennedy, bipartisanship was not an end but a means to an end — getting a good bill passed. What defined “a good bill”? Simple: “The point is to have some positive impact on people’s lives.”

Democrats would do well to heed his words.

I’ve heard that privately, Sebelius tells people how horrible this whole thing is, how she hates being the pitch man and that this isn’t what she got into politics for.

She’s really starting to bug me.

This time it’s Panetta v. Holder.