Is the dam bursting?

[jpmassar]

Senate Armed services report on treatment of detainees released (PDF).

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody cannot simply be attributed to the actions of "a few bad apples" acting on their own. The fact is that senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive techniques, redefined the law to create

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[freelikebeer]

Do you believe less the CIA or Cheney?

CIA in a no-brainer.

[jpmassar]

"It won't surprise you that I don't consider Dick Cheney a particularly reliable source"

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, today, testifying to Congress

[freelikebeer]

I still think CIA in a landslide. Ol' Cheney's subterfuge is almost calculable.

[jpmassar]

Cha-ching!

"The National Archives confirms that Cheney formally requested the release of classified CIA documents to prove that the intelligence gathering ends justified the torture means."

[freelikebeer]

You are probably already aware of this, but I'll pass it along just in case you haven't.

Are you usually a BARGE attendee, JP?

[jpmassar]

$104,000 to exhume President Taft.

He was pretty big. Did they really allocated enough?

(I was not aware of it -- thanks!)

I've attended every BARGE except 3 (including not attending the first two).