Ah, I see Marcy kind of beat me to this, but I ground through both those documents that Cheney said would vindicate his defenses of torture, and — shock horror — I think she may have understated the case. Just out from the Washington Independent:

Those documents were obtained today by The Washington Independent and are available here.  Strikingly, they provide little evidence for Cheney’s claims that the “enhanced interrogation” program run by the CIA provided valuable information. In fact, throughout both documents, many passages — though several are incomplete and circumstantial, actually suggest the opposite of Cheney’s contention: that non-abusive techniques actually helped elicit some of the most important information the documents cite in defending the value of the CIA’s interrogations.

It’s basically a 1000-word fisking, so it kind of doesn’t make any sense to reproduce more of this. But read in supplement with Marcy’s post, won’t you? And my other Windy updates will continue to be collected on the previous thread.