memo

I hate to pour cold water on Sam Stein here, but the Republican National Committee health care memo from Alex Castellanos that I quote from in my story today is not new or secret. It went out on July 7, and the RNC has happily passed it on to reporters. Byron York makes similar hay [...]

So in my piece today I wondered how it could be that the CIA could come to view stress positions as a mechanism to induce sleep deprivation in detainees. The obvious culprit is the Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) program, because in the May 10, 2005 “techniques” memo, then-Office of Legal Counsel chief Steve [...]

Despite last week’s release of four Bush-era Office of Legal Counsel memos, at least one Department of Justice opinion is still undisclosed.

Much has been written about McCain’s inability, or unwillingness, to even mention the name of President George W. Bush. Huffington Post’s Sam Stein has a nice score, which lays this problem bare. Stein got his hands on an early draft of a McCain campaign statement on the Wall Street crisis that was very critical of [...]