emptywheel has a summary of the documents withheld from the recent ACLU FOIA release [The CIA’s Latest Vaughn Follies] which is a bit more readable than the government listing. There remain a stack of documents, and as noted in emptywheel‘s comments, there are a number of OLC opinions still being withheld:
emptywheel in response to WilliamOckham
Hey, where’s the rest of the documents? In the remand order, the judge refers to 319 documents (including the IG report). The CIA released eight documents. That Vaughn index covers about 150 documents. Am I missing something or does this not add up?There’s another Vaughn covering OLC documents coming:
There are also outstanding OLC docs [we’ve gotten about 43 out of 181] included in the 319 number. I think we will get a separate Vaughn declaration/index for those.
More documents to try to get. Among the reasons for pursuing the Bush Administration Torture Program, one looms large – Cheney In 2012? Some Key GOPers Aren’t Kidding. As the din of Republican Obstinence, Fox News, and Talk Radio eat away at Obama’s support, Cheney gets noisier and noisier. My guess is that they are serious about this, and that Cheney’s just Narcissistic enough to go for it. As unimaginable as such a thing might be, this adds an incentive to fully expose what Dick Cheney actually is. The point is not just about the Torture Program itself. That program was unfortunately fine with the Bush/Cheney base – tough guys and all of that. The point is about the why of Torture, and its relationship to the Invasion of Iraq.
The thought of Dick Cheney as President is intolerable to me if that is even a remote possibility. It would be the end of the America as we know it. Simply read the text of his interview with Chris Wallace on Sunday – bombing Iran, Torture, contemptuousness, sarcasm…
Argh!
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