You hear a lot about the administration’s torture regime, but not a lot about the process of how we got to where we are.
Say hello to TPM alum and drinking buddy Spencer Ackerman at his new muckraking home, The Washington Independent. In his first big piece, Spencer looks at how the CIA ended up implementing a system where “U.S. interrogators are still mostly in the darkâin the dark not only about al-Qaeda, but about how to effectively elicit vital national-security information from the detainees in its custody.”