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Perfect timing considering that hours earlier Spain’s Attorney General declined to prosecute Bush’s torture lawyers and handed the case back to the investigating judge.

UPDATE: Obama’s official statement on the memo release. No memos yet.

SPIED ON CONGRESS-This is beyond Watergate. Which is worse, attempting to plant bugs in the offices of the Democratic National Committee, or violating a law that you just signed in order to electronically eavesdrop on a Congressman on official business?

Glenn Reynolds is quite likely the #1 conservative blogger. He’s also completely wrong on so many, many things. By the way, this is why this blog makes predictions about the news occasionally, I want the credibility to be judged on how often the predictions turn out to resemble reality, and not on how entertaining my […]

You can’t make this stuff up:

Among the details in the still-classified memos is approval for a technique in which a prisoner’s head could be struck against a wall as long as the head was being held and the force of the blow was controlled by the interrogator, according to people familiar with the memos. […]

A family tradition. As soon as Bill Clinton took office, in 1993, the first Democratic Senator to criticize the new President was Oklahoma’s US Senator David Boren, who was very angry about a draft proposal for an “energy tax” which by the way would have been good for fighting global warming and foreign oil dependence. […]