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Marcy Wheeler at Firedoglake has an interesting take today on the most recent summary of classified documents that the government turned over to the American Civil Liberties Union Friday, as part of its response to the organization’s Freedom of Information Act requests about the destruction of 92 videotapes of CIA interrogations. The documents reveal what [...]

Please make it this wonderful FireDogLake exchange between Rand’s Seth Jones — author of a new book tracing how the Afghanistan war became a fiasco — Registan’s Josh Foust, and the FDL readership. (Full disclosure: FDL hosts my personal blog and I suggested Josh host the chat.) These are very knowledgeable people talking about an [...]

Marcy Wheeler made a great point on Friday that’s worth following up on. President Obama’s declaration to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention Against Torture tosses the responsibility for developing “effective policies and programs for stopping torture” to the State Department, asking it to “solicit information from all of our diplomatic missions [...]

The conservative site sends a message to its members, penned by Erick Erickson:
Get on the phone ASAP. The vote has not happened and it looks like it won’t until next week. Why? Because we are bringing pressure to bear and the Democrats are having a very hard time keeping a majority on the legislation.
We absolutely [...]