Josh Marshall’s been following the continuing torture saga pretty closely:

I’ve been talking to a few people today who have some professional insight into the whole torture saga, just what happened, what this or that secret memo might say. And I’m getting the sense that waterboarding to force people to tell us the ‘truth’ about Saddam’s alliance with al Qaida might turn out to be a pretty big part of this. Especially when we look closely at Cheney’s role.

In other words - we were looking for specific answers with the waterboard, answers which may or may not have been true. But which could be used to justify the war we wanted to wage anyway.

Nice.

Update: Sullivan with more.