Torture Memos: Inquiry Suggests No Prosecutions

[florida08]

New York Times
Published: May 6, 2009

WASHINGTON — An internal Justice Department inquiry has concluded that Bush administration lawyers committed serious lapses of judgment in writing secret memorandums authorizing brutal interrogations but that they should not be prosecuted, according to government officials briefed on its findings.

The report by the Office of Professional Responsibility, an internal ethics unit within the Justice Department, is also likely to ask state bar associations to consider possible disciplinary action, which could include reprimands or even disbarment, for some of the lawyers involved in writing the legal opinions, the officials said......

The findings, growing out of an inquiry that started in 2004, would represent a stinging rebuke of the lawyers and their legal arguments.

But they would stop short of the criminal referral sought by some human rights advocates, who have suggested that the lawyers could be prosecuted as part of a criminal conspiracy to violate the anti-torture statute.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/us/politics/06inquire.html?_r=1&hp

[lazer47]

1. This report started in 2004, this was under BUSH.

This was one of Pres. Obamas campain promises to hold accountable the people involved in "Torture", This thing is like cancer with delusion, it will not go away by ignoring it, it will only get worse..

[mod mom]

3. EXACTLY and was overseen partly by those it sought to investigate.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Try again n/t

[Loge23]

4. Justice - what a concept!

This is what now passes for "justice" in this country - which, btw, is the world's leader in incarceration rates. We're #1 U-S-A -U -S-A!!
We throw people in jail for drugs, instead of treating them for the disease of addiction. We throw people in jail for a wide range of criminal offenses - particularly poor people. And we throw people in jail for standing up to the machine of authority in this country (you can usually count on a good beating from the local "authorities" along with this one).
But we don't throw people in jail for torture if they are government employees - that's OK. It's just "enhanced interrogation tactics".
John Yoo and Bybee are criminals. The people who performed these atrocities are criminals. The people who sanctioned these atrocities are criminals. They should be treated as such - either from the do-nothing DOJ or the people of the United States, in whose name these atrocities were perpetrated.

[spanone]

5. yep, let's take enforcement of law off the table

imagine this scenario 'flip-flopped' and the republics found a democratic administration had tortured and lied to the world about it.....just imagine