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Turning the Torture Report Into a Book
It takes care to turn a good paper book into a good digital book. But it also takes care to turn a lousy digital book into a good paper book! The New Yorker has a story about how Melville House is doing just that, publishing the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. But remember fine […]
What makes a “fugitive document” a fugitive?
First off, I’d like to thank GPO (now the Government Publishing Office!) for posting about this Historic Fugitive Document Available through the CGP. I’d like to give a little context and parse out what makes a fugitive document — a document that is within scope of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) but for whatever […]
Senate Torture Report: the Senate Speaks
Our friend Daniel Schuman from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) (nee Sunlight) has put together a helpful ebook “Senate Torture Report: The Senate Speaks” (archived copy as ePub, PDF, full text, etc.). The ebook pulls together the speeches on the floor of the Senate of several senators, including the Intelligence Committee Chair […]
Four-part series by Washington Examiner examining the state of inspectors general
Thanks to Sabrina Pacifici at BeSpacific for posting about this Four-part series by the Washington Examiner examining and illuminating the work and current state of inspectors general. Inspectors General are little-known independent agencies of the United States federal government and are charged with identifying, auditing, and investigating fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement within the parent […]
Senate *finally* releases study on CIA aka the “torture report”
Yesterday the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its “Study of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program – Foreword, Findings, and Conclusions, and Executive Summary.” (BIG PDF!) The report is 525 pages, heavily redacted, and includes graphic details about the torture techniques used by the CIA. The study found that American torture was not […]
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