The ABC News story Wednesday night that revealed key cabinet members, advisors and even the man the bloggoes like to call Darth Cheney were intimately involved in planning torture for suspected terrorists in U.S. custody spawned an AP story that has had widespread circulation, since AP is a co-op with member newspapers all over the country.
So, it's not only out there, but there's preliminary official Congressional attention.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-MI, has invited all to testify before his committee about meetings of the so-called Principals Committee in the Situation Room in the White House basement.
The list includes former AG John Ashcroft, former CIA head George Tenet, former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, Chief of Staff to the Vice President David Addington and former Asst. AG Daniel Levin.
As David Kurtz at TPM notes, not likely to happen without subpoenas, executive privilege claims and "a few trips to court."
My take since the Yoo memo surfaced last week is that he would be the scapegoat on all this, but now that the ABC story is getting traction, Yoo may become just a footnote buried on a law school faculty.
(Note here, Conyers' committee's action on contempt of Congress grounds to get a court to order Harriet Meyers and Josh Bolton to testify re: the White House involvement in U.S. attorney firings had its first hearing this week.)
Notably absent from Conyers' list is Cheney himself, Colin Powell and Condi.
In the meantime, the chairman of UC Berkley's law school says he's not going to fire John Yoo, author of the infamous torture memo, because it's Yoo's bosses who are directly accountable.
Despite a hot primary season of hairdos and bowling, the saga continues.
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