Have you read the Mother Jones article re: “The Lie Factory” by Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest? I found that article very good and the graphic of the OSP is great for a quick visual. Link below:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html

Also the Timeline in 2005, “Senator Pat Roberts (R – KS) Helps to Fix the Intel by Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane was very helpful. Link below:
http://rawstory.com/robertsintel.htm

I still wonder what happened to William Luti in the OSP. Back then I thought that he was a conduit for the cherry picked Intel but it’s been so long and so many unlawful activities that I can’t even remember why I thought he was so important in the whole thing. Agh!

My representatives don’t ever know what is going on with Phase II which is why I finally called Rockefellers office but they weren’t very helpful.

From my understanding (will call Rockefeller today) the last two parts of that investigation/report are not complete. Senator Pat Roberts did everything in his power to delay, divert and dilute that investigation. Will Senator Rockefeller finish it?

Supposedly the last two parts of that report have to do with the Office of Special Plans where the majority of cherry picked and false pre war intelligence came out of.

That line reads like an attempt to justify if ever I heard one, and it smells to me… Why come forward now? An attack of conscience?

“Kiriakou says he did not know that the interrogation of Zubaydah was being secretly recorded by the CIA and had no idea the tapes had been destroyed.”

So, he failed to notice the vidcam in the room? Also, he didn’t know about the taping, yet he had no idea the tapes were destroyed? There’s a contradiction, I’m sure. The whole article reads like some White House moron thought this up as a way to convey to the American public that, ya know, sometimes you’ve just got to waterboard, there’s just no other way! And, oops, sorry we got caught with our pants down.

Bottom line: 1) I can’t believe this was not some kind of dis-information project. 2) I truely believe that Zubaydah will never see the light of day again (or a courtroom) after that interview, no matter who is president. Maybe that was the intent…

One of the reasons I detest the current WH admin. so much is the way they have used our intelligence agencies like throw away toys. Sadly, our intel agencies may never recover from this.

If your writing states that 4 out of 5 players died, you would think it important to at least say the real names and circumstances of thier deaths.
This artical leaves you with the imperession that the deaths were untimely.

Anyone?

Four of these five died shortly thereafter, except the Saudi Intel Chief, Sheikh al-Turki, who was later welcomed by the Bush Administration as the Saudi Ambassador to Washington.

Now, here’s the third reason: Abu Zubaydah was a key Al-Qaeda figure in the CIA’s Chechnya operation, which involved several of the 9/11 hijackers. He was in a position to know about the relationship of the 9/11 Hamburg cell with the CIA

For those of you who like this type of thing, I encourage you to buy the novel. It is a real page turner! Oliver Stone ought to make a movie out of it.

I am sorry you were born.

Sincerely,

Yogi

Why the former chief prosecutor for the Office of Military Commissions resigned his post.
By Morris D. Davis

I had instructed the prosecutors in September 2005 that we would not offer any evidence derived by waterboarding, one of the aggressive interrogation techniques the administration has sanctioned. Haynes and I have different perspectives and support different agendas, and the decision to give him command over the chief prosecutor’s office, in my view, cast a shadow over the integrity of military commissions. I resigned a few hours after I was informed of Haynes’ place in my chain of command.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-davis10dec10,0,2446661.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail

From TP:

Haynes is a close ally of Vice President Cheney and has been described as a “prime mover” in the effort to contravene the dictates of the Geneva Conventions. A 2003 working group appointed and supervised by Haynes argued the Geneva Conventions “must be construed as inapplicable to interrogations undertaken pursuant to [Bush’s] Commander-in-Chief authority.”

More recently, Haynes blocked Lt. Col. Stuart Couch, a former Guantanamo Bay prosecutor, from testifying before Congress about his experiences with “enhanced” interrogation.

In October, Morris also revealed that the Pentagon had been pushing for “high-profile” convictions of detainees ahead of the 2008 elections. Morris said “that he felt pressure to pursue cases that were deemed ’sexy’ over those that prosecutors believed were the most solid or were ready to go.”