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Senate to release report on Bush interrogation
techniques and policies
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• Washington D.C. - The Senate Intelligence
  Committee is expected to release its report about
  the Bush-era CIA interrogation tactics and
  detainees on Tuesday morning. The 50 million
  investigation focuses on in the years following
  the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The
  long-delayed report on the use of torture -
  "enhanced interrogation techniques" - by the U.S.
  government is expected to be released Tuesday
  morning. This won't be a full disclosure, but
  rather the report's 480-page executive summary.
  The complete report totals more than 6,000 pages.
  Officials briefed on the report say it will
  provide ugly new details on the CIA program,
  including specifics on detainee deaths and a
  portrayal of the program. The report will detail
  20 findings, plus 20 case studies including the
  hunt for Osama bin Laden. The Senate report was
  conceived initially as a bipartisan review of the
  CIA program. This investigation was intended to
  determine if President Bushs counter-terrorism
  tactics actually produced intelligence to keep
  the nation safe.

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In Other News

• Twice a year, Marcus Dodge assigns a worker to
  don disposable coveralls and a respirator for a
  trip to a downtown Fairbanks parking garage to
  clean up deposits from a non-native species the
  pigeon. Dodge, director of the Fairbanks Parking
  Authority, estimates the worker picks up 150
  gallons of pigeon dung annually and hauls it to
  the hazardous materials area at the landfill. The
  downtown pigeon population appears to be growing
  and the droppings left by these birds are suspect
  for creating structural damage around the city.
  Pigeon droppings contain ammonia and uric acids
  that eat away at metal and the sealant on the
  parking garage concrete floor. These droppings
  were cited as possible cause for speeding the
  decay of a Minneapolis bridge across the
  Mississippi River that collapsed in 2007 and
  killed 13 people.
• You could say these cows were on the MOO-ve. Six
  wayward dairy cows sauntered down the main drag
  in Red Wing, Minnesota. It took three officers to
  corral the black-and-white cows Wednesday night.
  The owner called police when he noticed his
  trailer gate was down and he was missing a few
  Holstein after returning to his farm. He had
  stopped in Red Wing and figured that's where they
  got out. The chief says the officers herded the
  cows into a parking enclosure. He says it's a
  good thing they were dairy cows, because they're
  more cooperative than beef cattle.