Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Morning Thread

Funny how little coverage there is of this even though it occured just after Big Dick spoke about how awesome torture can be.


A former CIA high-value detainee, who provided bogus information that was cited by the Bush administration in the run-up to the Iraq war, has died in a Libyan prison, an apparent suicide, according to a Libyan newspaper...

In their book "Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War," Michael Isikoff and David Corn said Libi made up the story about Iraqi training after he was beaten and subjected to a "mock burial" by his Egyptian interrogators, who put him in a cramped box for 17 hours. Libi recanted the story after being returned to CIA custody in 2004.



Why it almost gets to the Washington Post's "Walter Pincus Memorial Page", but not quite.