Light at the End of the Tunnel for Dawn Johnsen’s OLC Confirmation?

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Light at the End of the Tunnel for Dawn Johnsen’s OLC Confirmation?
By: Cynthia Kouril Tuesday November 24, 2009 3:50 pm


Good news! As soon as the health care bill is passed, the Senate will finally turn its attention to confirming Dawn Johnsen as head of Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel. Yippee!

The investigation into the OLC’s role in the use of torture under the Bush administration is virtually complete, but the Obama folks are taking the extra step of having it reviewed by David Margolis of the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility because they don’t want any of the targets of the investigation to have ANY ground to contest the report process. Yippee! Let’s hear it for “belt and suspenders” legal work.

However, it is expected that the OPR report will be out BEFORE Dawn Johnsen comes up for a vote. Yippee!

Why yippee on that last one you ask?

Well, those who shall remain nameless, but who seem to have some advance inkling of the report’s contents, are ready to dare, DARE I tell you, the Republicans to try to filibuster Dawn’s confirmation vote. The OLC investigation report will be taken to the floor of the Senate, and every time there is any sort of delay or lull, a passage from the report is going to read aloud; presumably to punish the GOP for burning floor time.

Which implies that the report is going to be a humdinger. Yippee! We may finally get some answers.

Oh, and you know that legal defense fund former OLC Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee set up? It may be because, once again, folks are using the word impeachment in the very same sentence with his name. He’s a federal judge these days, and is subject to removal by impeachment.

Hang onto your hats, pups, it may be a wild ride.