Another Yoo torture memo
In August 2002, John Yoo wrote an infamous memo on behalf of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel which attempted to justify the use of torture by the CIA. The memo has since been released (PDF here), widely circulated, and then disavowed by the Bush White House.
Another memo accompanied that one which remains secret to this day; this second memo detailed specific torture techniques, including waterboarding, that Yoo said were justified according to the legal reasoning set forth in the first memo. Until now, that second memo has remained secret under a White House assertion of attorney/client privilege.
However, since the Bush administration seems to have relied upon that secret memo to formulate official policy, a federal judge has decided to review the memo and determine if its continued classification is justifiable.
If the second memo is indeed released, I'm under no illusion that it will result in any measure of accountability for the criminal gang currently running the executive branch of the US government, but its disclosure will at least help flesh out the historical record for future generations. We've slid too far down the rabbit hole for anyone to expect real legal consequences for that horrid band of thugs; documentation of the decay of the presidency is about the best we can hope for.