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Posted By tehranchik 6 months, 1 week ago in Political NewsJustice Department officials have stopped short of recommending criminal charges against Bush administration lawyers who wrote secret memos approving harsh interrogation techniques of terror suspects. A person familiar with the inquiry, who spoke on condition of anonymity, says investigators recommended referring two of the three lawyers to state bar associations for possible disciplinary action. The person was not authorized to discuss the inquiry.
The person noted that the investigative report was still in draft form and subject to revisions. Attorney General Eric Holder also may make his own determination about what steps to take once the report has been finalized.
The Justice Department notified two senators by letter that a key deadline in the inquiry expired Monday, signaling that most of the work on the matter was completed. The letter does not mention the possibility of criminal charges, nor does it name the lawyers under scrutiny.
The inquiry has become a politically-loaded guessing game, with some advocating criminal charges against the lawyers and others urging that the matter be dropped.
The letter did not indicate what the findings of the final report would be. Jay Bybee, John Yoo and Steven Bradbury worked in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel and played key roles in crafting the legal justification for techniques critics call torture.
Investigators initially recommended professional sanctions against Bybee and Yoo, but not Bradbury, according to the person familiar with the matter. That would come in the form of recommendations to state bar associations, where the most severe possible punishment is disbarment.
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There MUST be prosecutions. We are a nation of laws. Laws have been broken. Do you really want to admit to the world that some are above the law here? I don't! If Clinton could be impeached for lieing about a BJ, how incredibly stupid that the creators and perpetrators in the white house of horrible deeds against everything this country stands for cannot be held accountable!
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Natureboy6 months ago
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"Do you really want to admit to the world that some are above the law here?"
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Damn straight I do. SInce we can only move forward from where we are, the first step is always to acknowledge what is. The USA has routinely employed torture for many decades and has taught and encouraged the use of torture through its "School of the Americas," now renamed "WHISC."
Do you really want to persist in the transparent hypocricy of insisting that the USA, the biggest rogue nation on the planet, is "a nation of laws" after our history of naked aggression and our unjustifiable invasion and occupation of Iraq? After more than a hundred year history of covert and overt "regime change" around the world?
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