It’s not a surprise that the Obama Administration has been pointing to its own investigations — credible or not — to persuade the international community not to hold our torturers accountable. But it is useful to see how the diplomats and the lawyers first hatched that plan.

A bunch of former DOJ bigwigs just wrote a seemingly pointless letter to Pat Leahy to assure him that David Margolis does not have a partisan–and they mean Left-Right partisan–bias. (h/t Main Justice)

It’s been eleven months since Dawn Johnsen was nominated to serve as the Assistant Attorney General to head up the Office of Legal Counsel. Dozens of other nominees have been confirmed to major DOJ positions in those eleven months, and still she waits.