Background reading - The Colvin memos

Well, some of them, at any rate --  the full set has yet to be released by the government. But here, courtesy of Amnesty International, are six of the reports that he filed between 2006 and 2007. Not surprisingly, the documents are heavily redacted -- even the datestamps are blacked out -- but still, it makes for interesting reading in the lead-up to this afternoon's testimony: