Holder Promises No "Hide and Seek" With Memos

Right, then why were certain parts that would undermine contentions of the left and provide legitimacy to the use of waterboarding left out?

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Thursday he won't play ''hide and seek'' with secret memos about harsh interrogations of terror suspects and their effectiveness. In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Holder said he's willing to release as much information as possible about the interrogations.

Several members of the committee pressed him about the Justice Department's release last week of four long-secret legal memos detailing the harsh techniques used on some detainees during the Bush administration.

''It is certainly the intention of this administration not to play hide and seek, or not to release certain things,'' said Holder. ''It is not our intention to try to advance a political agenda or to try to hide things from the American people.''

Republicans -- including former Vice President Dick Cheney -- have urged the Obama administration to release other, still-secret documents detailing what intelligence was gained from the controversial interrogation techniques.

''I think you have an obligation to release the rest of the memos,'' said Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va.

This is going to blow up in all of our faces, left, right, Democrat and Republican.