Topic: Jay Bybee

The title of a recently released ABC News article is " Obama's Remarks On Prosecution Please Democrats (But Inevitably) Anger Republicans; As some hail Obama's comments, Others Say (That) His Contradiction Is Confusing". are we getting the information that we need ...

JILL MAGID A Reasonable Man in a Box

If you needed any extra evidence that the Bush Administration lost all sense of decency in its pursuit of information believed to be hidden in the minds of terrorist suspects, then go see Jill Magid's chilling installation, A Reasonable Man in ...
Ex-Justice lawyer tells House panel some reported CIA interrogation techniques not authorizedOne of the key Bush administration lawyers in the evolution of the CIA's interrogation program cast doubt on whether the Justice Department approved some of the harsh steps the agency ...
Congressman: Interview shows some reported CIA interrogation techniques not authorized by DOJThe House Judiciary Committee chairman says an interview with a former Justice Department official shows the department did not authorize some of the harsh interrogation techniques reportedly used by the CIA ...

Accountability for Torture

The author discusses how the U.S. House of Representatives failed to hold U.S. President George W. Bush's administration accountable for its abuses of power concerning torture, and how this failure has resulted in a weakening of U.S. constitutional ...
Senate chairman demands search for e-mails of lawyers who worked on Bush interrogation policy A Senate committee chairman told the Justice Department on Friday to hunt for the missing e-mails of an attorney who provided legal justification for the Bush administration's ...

US Justice Department clears torture memo authors

Two top Bush-era lawyers who authorized waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics exercised "An initial investigation by the department's ethics watchdog, the Office of Professional Responsibility, found that Jay Bybee and John Yoo engaged in "professional misconduct," a finding that could ...
Senate to hold hearings on Bush administration lawyers' so-called 'torture memos' The Justice Department is closing the books on its probe of the Bush administration lawyers whose legal memorandums authorized the CIA to waterboard terrorism suspects, but the chairman of the Senate ...

Bush lawyers criticized on interrogation advice

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Bush administration lawyers who authorized harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects used poor judgment but will not face punishment, according to a U.S. Justice Department report released on Friday.The department's Office of Professional Responsibility had originally ...
Ethics document will say Bush lawyers showed poor judgment but no misconduct Bush administration lawyers who drafted legal theories that led to waterboarding and other harsh treatment of terrorism suspects showed poor judgment but won't face sanctions for professional misconduct, according ...