Any chance this is a deliberate attempt to incite to riot?
They are just looking for a reason to declare an emergency, and that darned swine flu just didn’t cooperate.
I think it's simpler than that.
It's an attempt to put Bush on trial through the back door. The defense attorneys/defendants pro se will have multiple opportunities to bring up "torture" and "illegal detention" in the context of whether or not evidence is admissible in the criminal trial.
This will result in numerous stories of such "torture" in the press, "forcing" Obama to appoint a special prosecutor to "investigate" Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al.
That way, Obama will get his show trial of the previous administration.