Cindy Trigg announces her campaign for election in District #2. Following is her initial campaign speech in Reno, Nevada. She is seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination to run as the Democratic candidate to oppose the current incumbent, Republican Dean Heller.

Paul Reeves, resident of Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada is also seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination.

I am unaware of anyone else expecting to run on the Democratic side, though it is early and District #2 is one large district.

Remember earlier when it was disclosed that AIG paid $120 million in 2008 bonuses to a pool of more than 6,000 employees? Forget that, AIG now says it paid out more than $454 million in bonuses to its employees for work performed in 2008. [Politico]

It is very hard for me to believe Dick Cheney is trying to protect the “little people.” But that is what he is saying about the “torture” debate and investigation. [Huffington Post]

"This is the first time that I can recall that we’ve had an administration come in, take power, and then suggest using the power of the government against their predecessors, from a legal standpoint," Cheney said in an interview Monday. "Criminal prosecution of lawyers in the Justice Department whose opinions they disagreed with on an important issue. Criminal prosecutions. When was the last time that happened?"

As far as I’m concerned the Bush-Cheney administration engaged in a criminal enterprise. Rendition—kidnapping people and hauling them off to secret prisons in Europe to be tortuously interrogated. No charges. No trial. Just secrecy. Certainly was an un-American policy to me.

Hooray!

Paul Reeves, a resident of Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada is running for Nevada’s District 2 seat in Congress. [Democracy for America]

You can learn about Reeves on the DFA link. The ultimate idea is to replace the current Republican occupant for District 2, Dean Heller.

The question is “Who in the George W. Bush White House tried to shred a memo challenging the use of torture?” [Mother Jones]

Philip Zelikow wrote a memo in 2005 disputing the conclusions of Bush Justice Department lawyers that torture was legal. But the "White House attempted to collect and destroy all copies of my memo," Zelikow says.

Zelikow states he suspects the office of former Vice-President Dick Cheney was behind the cover-up.

The Mother Jones article asserts “Cheney’s office was reportedly the hub of the Bush administration’s torture program.

Congress is now searching for Zelikow’s memo. Zelikow is to testify before Congress next week.

Someone in the White House tried to deep-six Philip Zelikow’s anti-torture memo. Welcome to the latest Bush-era whodunit.