EmptyWheel: "Dam May Well Break" - ACLU: More Torture Info Coming Shortly

[kpete]

Just as interesting (particularly in light of the goings on in the al-Haramain case), is the list of information that the ACLU will shortly be getting (the CIA wants this week to put together a schedule for turning over the information). That includes:

* A copy of the CIA Office of Inspector General's Special Review Report--a redacted copy of which had previously been supplied to the ACLU--with the details regarding the torture tapes un-redacted.

* A list identifying and describing each of the destroyed records.

* A list of any summaries or transcripts describing the destroyed records content.

* Identification of any witnesses who may have viewed the videotapes.

Note, they are warning that they will protect CIA identities with that last bullet. But we may get the names of other people (I'm imagining Bush, Cheney, and David Addington might be among them) who had viewed the torture tapes.

And this is perhaps the most interesting bit:

The CIA intends to produce all of the information requested to the Court and to produce as much information as possible on the public record to the plaintiffs.

Watch out below, because I think this dam may well break.

more at:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/03/02/92-destroyed-tapes/
http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/safefree/lettertohellerstein_ciainterrogationtapes.pdf

[Sydnie]

1. As much as I had to see it, I know we MUST see it

It's the only way to call them to account and begin the rebuilding that we so desperately need.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

Prosecutions sure would make me feel better about my country.