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Originally Posted by Cali Coug

And it doesn't show that there was "healthy disagreement" over a "murky" topic.

Sure it does.

In a separate effort to counterbalance the draft report, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and Deputy Attorney General Mark R. Filip wrote a 14-page letter before they left office this year. They described the context surrounding the origins of the memos, written at a time when officials feared another terrorist strike on American soil.

Both Mukasey and Filip were dissatisfied with the quality of the legal analysis in the wide-ranging draft report, sources said. Among other things, the draft report cited passages from a 2004 CIA inspector general's investigation and cast doubt on the effectiveness of the questioning techniques, which sources characterized as far afield from the narrow legal questions surrounding the lawyers' activities. The letter from Mukasey and Filip has not been publicly released, but it may emerge when the investigative report is issued.

Sounds like a internal disagreement to me.

The end of the article indicates what this is really all about:

But, [Durbin] said, many important questions remained unanswered. "It's a question of responsibility. In this chain of command, how far up did it go?"

Now past the 100 Days even, and the Get Bush crowd is still alive and well.