When bureaucrats overprotect their agency, they harm the public they are hired to serve.

In this post, I’m going to test a hypothesis that OLC may not have included “cramped confinement” in its torture plans until it removed “mock burial.” If I’m right, it means after having been told OLC would not approve mock burial, OLC and CIA instead just renamed what they were doing as “cramped confinement” so as to get it past those in DOJ who were opposed to allowing the US to use mock burial in its torture program.

Nothing quite has the power of hearing the words contained in critical documents the torture era read out loud.