I hadn’t caught this until now, but this could be very revealing and an important disclosure on the Bush administrations torture policies. Excerpt from Michael Isikoff’s story in Newsweek:

Over objections from the U.S. intelligence community, the White House is moving to declassify—and publicly release—three internal memos that will lay out, for the first time, details of the “enhanced” interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration….The memos, written by Justice Department lawyers in May 2005, provide the legal rationale for waterboarding, head slapping and other rough tactics used by the CIA. One senior Obama official…said the memos were “ugly” and could embarrass the CIA. Other officials predicted they would fuel demands for a “truth commission” on torture.

NOTE: In all of the discussions about Bush and torture, it is very important to remember that some of these policies were initiated under Clinton in the 1990s and Obama has sent very disturbing and at times conflicting signals about his policies.