A Torture Report Could Spell Big Trouble For Bush Lawyers

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http://www.newsweek.com/id/184801

By Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK
Published Feb 14, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Feb 23, 2009

An internal Justice Department report on the conduct of senior lawyers who approved waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics is causing anxiety among former Bush administration officials. H. Marshall Jarrett, chief of the department's ethics watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), confirmed last year he was investigating whether the legal advice in crucial interrogation memos "was consistent with the professional standards that apply to Department of Justice attorneys." According to two knowledgeable sources who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive matters, a draft of the report was submitted in the final weeks of the Bush administration. It sharply criticized the legal work of two former top officials—Jay Bybee and John Yoo—as well as that of Steven Bradbury, who was chief of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the time the report was submitted, the sources said. (Bybee, Yoo and Bradbury did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)

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1. poppy got away with Iran-Contra and his idiot son will get away with............

torture, destruction of our economy and financial system and a bogus Iran war. WHAT-TF else is new in d.c.?

[boobooday]

2. Big trouble means good news in this case n/t

[NNN0LHI]

3. Recommended

[The Doctor.]

4. Without justice, any society will fail.

These corrupt pieces of filth need to go down hard for the sake of the nation.

[loudsue]

5. That is the whole key, and why the bush administration HAS TO face justice.

This country WILL fail if we let more Iran-Contra, BCCI, Nixonian-type pardons, and lawlessness in general go unpunished.