Still more torture evidence

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As noted below, the ACLU has been filing endless Freedom of Information Act requests to get its hands on various torture memos. Nevertheless, as Matt Welch writes in Reason today, we’re still a long ways from seeing the full stash of prisoner abuse photos and videos that the Pentagon has in its possession.