Is Special Prosecutor John Durham Finally Done Investigating Torture Tape Destruction?

By: emptywheel Friday April 16, 2010 7:02 am

Emails released Thursday look like they could be some of the 13 documents USDOJ special prosecutor John Durham withheld in the ACLU’s FOIA.

CIA Record on Congressional Torture Briefings Appears to Be Fabricated After-the-Fact

By: emptywheel Wednesday March 17, 2010 6:05 am

The CIA documents released in the latest FOIA batch prove that all the claims that CIA (and Crazy Pete Hoekstra) have made about briefings Congress received on torture are, at best, reconstructions based on years old memors, if not outright fabrications.

Demagoguing Fort Hood, Hoekstra Adds to List of Lies

By: emptywheel Wednesday November 11, 2009 11:55 am

A short collection of Crazy Pete Hoekstra’s most egregious lies shows that his demagoging of the Fort Hood attack fits into his larger pattern–and ought to warn journalists about treating anything he says seriously.

WaPo Doubles Down on Conflict Over Truth

By: emptywheel Saturday May 23, 2009 12:30 pm

In spite of the fact that it is becoming increasingly clear to the rest of the media that Porter Goss and Nancy Pelosi agree that they were not briefed that the CIA had already been torturing prisoners in September 2002, the WaPo has decided to double down on deliberately misreading events.

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