• ‘INSECTS PLACED IN A CONFINEMENT BOX’: We made a light joke earlier about Glenn Greenwald goin’ nuts with the highlighter on those four Bush Administration torture memos released today — almost completely unredacted — and man, he did just that. You are required to read some of the shit in these memos. This is our CIA’s War on Terror? Throwing a dumb caterpillar in a dark box but telling the detainees it’s a killer scorpion that will poison their butts? This isn’t SUMMER CAMP. [Glenn Greenwald]

It may be your lucky day, libtards! All you want are DoJ torture memos, uncut, NO REDAX, and now look at the breaking news: “In the fullest account to date of the questioning of al Qaeda suspects, government officials issued long sought documents that catalogue a list of tactics — from sleep and food deprivation to beatings — that Bush lawyers said comported with the law. The memos, which date to 2002, contain few redactions, despite a fierce battle within the Obama administration about the benefits of releasing the information.” TOUCHE, Obama… but rest assured that the very serious and important and serious news blogger Glenn Greenwald is furiously highlighting right now and will soon determine how much you care about so-called “legal statutes.” [WP]

The popular New York City blog Gawker has posted this leaked memo to the staff of AIG, about the things they should do to avoid their immediate death when in public. It includes such oldies as “If you think you are being followed, immediately dial 911.” But why does AIG management assume that the police will want to save these people? [Gawker]

We know that a few of you might consider this “inside baseball,” so if that’s the case, then don’t read any more of this post and go do something else. Easy! Now: The New Republic heard the kids’ clamoring and has decided to release the full, insane Politico memo quoted in its new story, about Politico. Mike Allen, or whoever wrote this, is basically an evil version of Hitler. [TNR]

• WELL OK THEN: The McCain campaign issued a creepy memo today about how awesome Obama’s speech will be and that they expect it to give him a 15-percentage point bounce in Polls. Oh the expectations! Remember when Hillary’s campaign people kept moving the goal posts, as they say, for Obama’s performances like every few hours? That was a comical way to go about LOSING. The Obama team, of course, has responded to the McCain memo with some barb about McCain’s “dozen houses.” He’s up to a dozen now! He must’ve bought five more fancy condominiums in San Diego overnight, buyer’s market and all. [WP/The Trail]

For the last few days, the folks at the Atlantic magazine have been hyping a piece from senior editor Joshua Green about the (not so) mysterious inner workings of Hillary Clinton’s terrible campaign staff, claiming Green had procured 200(!) internal e-mails and memos. Such teases! This is sort of like waving crack in front of John Edwards’ crack baby, but then saying “you have to wait for the September issue of crack to come out in three days.” But it’s out now, and we read it, and there’s not much you haven’t already known for months or couldn’t have predicted. It has its moments, however. Wait until you read about Mark Penn’s “FUN” invisible people button for the website! MORE »

Hillary Clinton’s team of hard-working white Americans wrote a memo today. It is all about the importance of her winning the primary in the “key swing state” of West Virginia, which John McCain will win in a landslide in November. Read the memo in full after the jump. MORE »

Anything the Hillary Clinton camp says these days on teevee, to reporters, to anyone who is a human being, rapidly erodes the entire campaign and her legacy. In their latest memo, which must have been written in crayon and targeted at the Cro-Magnon community, Team Clinton says that since Obama has done everything correctly, any loss in the future would finalize his defeat. MORE »

Earlier this week, Hillary Clinton hopped on a jet plane and peaced the eff out of South Carolina, where she’ll probably lose because of all the black people, to get her national campaign ready for Super Tuesday on February 5. This is called “lowering expectation,” although she did abandon her co-candidate husband and mute daughter in South Carolina to continue fake-campaigning. Yet today, the psyched-out Obama campaign sent out a memo outlining Hillary’s apparent strategy to “win” South Carolina. MORE »

Due to everyone in Iraq wanting to kill him, the White House is demanding that the news networks stop saying where Dick Cheney is staying in Baghdad. We won’t say it either, because we don’t want to be the next dead animal on Cheney’s lawn, but we will say that he’s obviously at that one place where U.S. officials go when they go to Baghdad — and we aren’t talking about that market where Walnuts McCain caused so much death and destruction.

Read the nervous memo floating around CNN, after the jump.

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You ever wonder what David Bradley thought about Andrew Sullivan? Or about David Bradley? Here’s a hint: he loves them both! An operative sent us one of David’s periodic rambling company-wide memos, this one announcing the (here’s the news, by the way) hiring of Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic, and the moving of his blog there from Time’s NEW AND IMPROVED website.

My Colleagues:

Probably lifting the thought from someone else, though I’ve long forgotten, I’ve spent my adult years believing that life is a sine curve of inevitable highs following inevitable lows. What is new to me, in this second career, is that the highs are much higher in journalism and the lows much lower. I had not understood, before, how wide could be the band of emotions.

This afternoon is one of the high highs for me. Andrew Sullivan has accepted James Bennet’s and my offer to join T he Atlantic as Senior Editor. Andrew will publish his blog, The Daily Dish , exclusively on The Atlantic website and contribute longer-form pieces to the magazine. To say this is a lift to our internet work hardly honors what Andrew has accomplished. Ranked in that highest priesthood of American bloggers, Andrew has a monthly following of over two million readers.

The entire crazy letter, including baked bribery, after the jump.

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