In Our Name: The IG Torture Report.

The U.S. Department of Justice will investigate whether prosecution is forthcoming because the Bush Administration thought torture represented the American Way.

(Nothing about the Bush Administration represented the American Way.)

Glenn Greenwald has a round-up and a link to the full 2004 CIA's Inspector General Report here.

I Think We Already Know Who Put The "Ass" In "Assassin."

Was this what that Dick was plotting during all that time in his undisclosed bunker? 

From MinnPost.com:

At a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation that he called an “executive assassination ring.”

Hersh spoke with great confidence about these findings from his current reporting, which he hasn’t written about yet.

In an email exchange afterward, Hersh said that his statements were “an honest response to a question” from the event’s moderator, U of M Political Scientist Larry Jacobs and “not something I wanted to dwell about in public.”

Hersh didn’t take back the statements, which he said arise from reporting he is doing for a book, but that it might be a year or two before he has what he needs on the topic to be “effective...that is, empirical, for even the most skeptical.”

Read more here, and--Hey!--let's get a special prosecutor assigned to look into these bastards, OK?