In a secret report last year, the Red Cross found evidence of the CIA using torture on prisoners that would make the Bush administration guilty of war crimes, The New York Times reported Friday.

banned from Daily Kossyndicated at impeachmentwatch.wordpress.com“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” — Edmund BurkeWelcome to Day 53 of ImpeachmentWatch™, your daily diary that tracks Impeachment, whether the Mainstream Media covers it or not. Why isn’t Impeachment on Nancy Pelosi’s Table?Judiciary Backpedals on Reports and Transcripts from “Non-Impeachment” HearingsClaiming an intern error, the House Judiciary Committee has retracted Monday statements regarding updates on the July 25th hearing on alleged presidential abuses, AKA the “non-impeachment” hearings.A late Wednesday afternoon call showed the Judiciary Committee now claiming congressional procedures will require the official transcripts of the six hour hearing to be held for 90 days, meaning the official transcripts will not be made available to the American public until just before the November elections. A staffer who declined to give her name claimed that Monday’s statement that the transcripts would ready for the public on Aug. 3rd was an “intern error,” explaining that there are “new people in the office and they don’t know.”The same explanation of “intern error” was given for the retraction of another, even more critical, earlier statement that an official committee report, or announcement of the findings from the hearing would be made available in “two weeks.” “There are no plans for any report or statement regarding the findings from those hearings. They are completed. We do not make press releases on hearings that have already happened.”Nancy Pelosi is on a national book tour to promote her book “Know your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters”. Democrats.com is holding a citizen journalism contest. The reward: up to $1,000. The task: get Pelosi to give “a direct and substantive answer to the Impeachment question”...