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Monday Night Open Thread

By Jeralyn

There's the Olympics. And on the Bachelor, Women Tell All Nothing. Also, 24 and Life Unexpected.

The Center for Constitutional Rights has obtained new FOIA documents showing Congress knew much more about the CIA's secret rendition program and torture than previously disclosed. The new documents also highlight the role of Dick Cheney counsel Richard Addington. For example, a newly obtained February 4, 2003, CIA memo documents the role of Counsel for the Office of the Vice President (OVP) in analyzing and approving the CIA techniques. CCR says:

“Members of Congress must come clean about whether they encouraged or objected to torture during these many secret meetings with CIA officials and we need a complete accounting of Cheney’s counsel, David Addington’s, role in the creation of the torture program. These new documents show that the CIA may have lied to Congress about the role of interrogation techniques in detainee deaths and key members of Congress abdicated their oversight role. This new information points even more strongly to the need for a full criminal investigation of the torture program, up the entire chain of command.”

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).