I’ve read through the Bybee memo and the first Bradbury memo and I’ve skimmed the last two Bradbury memos. I’m not a law professor but what struck me most strongly wasn’t the legal interpretations. I have the strong impression that people within the CIA badly misled the Office of Legal Counsel about the nature of the people they had in custody and the quality of information they were obtaining from them. Many of the representations that they made to the OLC appear to have been thoroughly debunked or called into serious question since, especially, 2002. If you’re looking for the makings of a recommended diary and you have access to Lexis-Nexis, I suggest doing a timeline on when information that the Bybee memo relied upon was publicly disputed.
