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Too busy today for blogging, but I can jot down some musings on the future of the GOP. Predictions are easy! Some blog commenter the other ...

Tim Fernholz writes about Simon Johnson (via DeLong ), and quotes some alarmingly naive Johnson critics: Like another Johnson critic, Harv...

We saw last week that CIA was meeting with NSA as early as May 2002 to seek authority to torture prisoners. An excellent Newsweek item on...

One of the many things we've been unable to mention re: the torture memos, is the circumstantial evidence that waterboarding etc. were a...

Jay Bybee's friends are letting it be known that the good judge is really, really sorry about his role in bringing the United States d...

Scott Horton draws attention to an amazing document that Attorney General Eric Holder released yesterday, which has still gained little att...

Daniel Larison of The American Conservative , writing at The Week , is a welcome antidote to the Fox-News hyperventilating dumbassery re: Ob...

Wow. A veritable torturepalooza in the media this week, combining with the regrettable misapprehensions of certain judges ( ahem ), has mad...

Judge Richard Posner, the "law-and-economics-(but-not-necessarily-in-that-order)" libertarian judge, the judge who's too smar...

I have to wonder whether this is bluff to fend off the Spanish prosecutions, but on its face, it's encouraging: With respect to those wh...

T.J. Clark finds that Manet isn't what he used to be: The fallen idol whose fate leaves me by far the most uneasy--uncertain, that is, ...

Lloyd Morgan (via DeLong ) quotes a new book by John Kay: I once debated the relationship between the social sciences with some anthropolog...

... are not in its AG's hands, as Judge Garzon ignores Candido Conde-Pumpido's scoffing and submits the Torture Lawyers case to a ...

Emptywheel finds a pretty big clue what CIA wanted to hide: ... the May 10, 2005 "Techniques" memo reveals that Abu Zubaydah'...

The new memos are being given a close reading at Emptywheel and at Opinio Juris -- lots of good stuff, too much to link. Emptywheel is do...