The Torture Gang: (Bybee's Graph)The Entire Bush Administration

[kpete]

Bybee's Graph

The Torture Gang: The Entire Bush Administration
By: emptywheel Sunday February 28, 2010 6:34 am
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One of the defenses that John Yoo and Jay Bybee made in response to the OPR Report with which I’m sympathetic is the argument that, if they are going to be held accountable, so should all the other Executive Branch lawyers who approved of torture. Jay Bybee even included a pretty little graph of all the other lawyers who approved torture (I’ve excerpted the list at the end of the post).

To support his case that everyone in the Bush Administration signed off on this torture, Bybee included extensive descriptions of the approval top Bushies gave to torture (though he admittedly seems to have forgotten to include Cheney and Addington–maybe that has something to do with the defense fund that got set up around the time this letter got draftedhttp://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2009/11/19/torture-memo-author-sets-up-defense-fund-to-fight-possible-impeachment.aspx).

much more:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/02/28/the-torture-gang-the-entire-bush-administration/

[YOY]

1. Wonder about that blanked one...

n.t.

[Overseas]

2. K&R to highlight right wing pathology. //nt

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[Supersedeas]

4. maybe, we should generate a list of accessories after the fact