From: “Government Further Delays Release Of Crucial CIA Inspector General Report, (7/2/2009), CIA's Fourth Delay Seeks Extension Until August 31

The following can be attributed to Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project:

"The CIA has already had more than five months to review the inspector general's report, and the report is only about two hundred pages long. We're increasingly troubled that the Obama administration is suppressing documents that would provide more evidence that the CIA's interrogation program was both ineffective and illegal. President Obama should not allow the CIA to determine whether evidence of its own unlawful conduct should be made available to the public. The public has a right to know what took place in the CIA's secret prisons and on whose authority."

The following can be attributed to Amrit Singh, staff attorney with the ACLU:

"It is apparent that the CIA report is not being delayed for legitimate reasons, but to cover up evidence of the agency's illegal and ineffective interrogation practices. It is time for the president to hold true to his promise of transparency and once and for all quash the forces of secrecy within the agency. The American public has a right to know the full truth about the torture that was committed in its name."

The CIA's letter to Judge Hellerstein is available online at: www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/40116lgl20090702.html

The ACLU's letter in response to the CIA's letter is online at: www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/40118lgl20090702.html

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/40120prs20090702.html

From Andy Worthington:

Release of the 'Holy Grail' of Torture Reports Delayed Again http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/02-7

White House officials had told political allies that they intended to "declassify it for public release when the debate quiets over last month's release of the Justice Department's interrogation memos.

From the Torturous Timeline:

February 17, 2006 - In an apparent response to the February 2006 UN special rapporteur report on Guantánamo, an “internal email relating to Guantánamo detainees scheduled for release” is written. It recommends “hold[ing] off on return flights for 45 days or so until things die down. Otherwise we are likely to have hero’s welcomes awaiting the detainees when they arrive.” The email also recommends transfer in a smaller, more discrete plane and has attached a reference to the United Nations (UN) report released around that time criticizing Guantánamo. [72] [74]

http://www.webdsi.com/jebbie/tline.html

I'll probably sound dumb, but what it is your correction in reference to? [Or maybe I should have stopped at one gin and tonic...] Two threads is getting to be a bit much at this point. OY!

Thanks [again], bystander! Do you think there's some way to obscure the fact that I have not yet listened to/read the interview? ;-)

Thanks for that link. I can't spend time on it now, but will in the near future. I appreciate all the work you've done.

"[...]

Chances are, we’ll never really know how Pelton managed to bungle so badly. But let’s use this incident to understand the notion of “manufactured consent.”

Beyond that, let’s use this incident to understand your nation’s long, near-lunatic non-discussion of health care reform. The long, near-lunatic non-discussion to which career liberals have given consent.

Let’s make sure we understand who would have been at that dinner:

Lally Weymouth, patrician publisher of the Post.

Jim Cooper, the red-state Democrat (Tennessee) who played a large, leading role in defeating the Clinton health plan.

Kaiser Permanente, one of the insurance giants which wants to undermine Obama’s health plan.

Kaiser Permanente’s checkbook.

Presumably, Ceci Connolly, the Post’s top reporter on health care.

Darlings, everyone would have been there! Everyone who’s anyone in undermining real health reform. [...]"

You seem to be correct about Somerby's error.

I can not think of an adequate response to your devastating portrayal of the State of our Union [on page 10].

On this day 233 years ago, courageous men who were finally outraged beyond bearing with the usurpations of tyranny put everything on the line to free themselves of it.

I ask my fellow Americans:

ARE WE OUTRAGED YET?

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.”

”The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master - that’s all.”