The first event was the massive withholding of documents pertaining to the interrogation tapes (all 92 of them) that the CIA (criminally) destroyed.  The ACLU asked for the documents, and their Blog of Rights covers it:

Today we were expecting a list of documents pertaining to the contents of the interrogation tapes destroyed by the CIA. We've been waiting for it all day, and at 5:20 p.m., we got zilch, save a letter from the DOJ telling the Judge presiding over the case that they won't turn over anything.

These 3,000 documents include summaries, transcripts, reconstructions and memoranda relating to the destruction of the tapes. Also withheld: the list of witnesses who may have viewed the tapes or had custody of the tapes before their destruction.

This stuck out to me because I remembered that there was a bit of excitement a few weeks ago as to what those documents contained.  mcjoan wrote at the time:  

The most encouraging bit from the letter: "The CIA intends to produce all of the information requested to the Court and to produce as much information as possible on the public record to the Plaintiffs." It would appear that the CIA under Panetta intends to cooperate fully in this.

Well the exact opposite happened!  Here is what we will get:  "The CIA will provide these lists to the Court for in camera review on March 26, 2009."  It is not mcjoan's fault that the CIA completely lied, but it will be our fault if we continue to believe them.

Following directly upon this news of the massive withholding of evidence from the public (and another promise broken), the Justice Department moved to declassify three torture memos from the Bush-era.  These memos will detail the legal framework for torture and the permitted techniques.  It will be the ab