Senator Whitehouse, today, is obliterating the foundation of the Bush-era arguments for why they did what they did. The premises of their "Presidential finding" are getting smashed (which is not odd, if you ever watched how dismissive one Bush official was publicly about 'getting a finding', as if it were as easy as turning on the water faucet ...).
- -The OLC assertion that Zubaydah broke on the introduction of harsh techniques? False on the facts.
- -Bush's public statements that information flowed from Zubaydah only after CIA involvement via harsh techniques. False on the facts.
Yet, there are people who keep looking to the CIA (and their highly paid contractors) for some kind of non dis-information self-assessment.
Update: CIA kept asking for harsher and harsher techniques... Surprise, surprise. Where did they end? The waterboard.
Update2: Good grief, what is more important than his own meeting on torture, that the Senator must rush to the airport? God help him, if it is a long weekend or something similar.
