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Impeach Bybee »
Posted by: jovial 8 months, 1 week ago in News
Jay Bybee is currently sitting on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. As assistant attorney general in President George W ...
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The Banality of Bush White House Evil »
Posted by: Beau7890 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The ticking time bomb was not another potential Qaeda attack on America but the Bush administration’s ticking timetable for selling a war in Iraq ...
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The Jay Bybee Problem »
Posted by: jovial 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
How did Jay Bybee breeze through an unusually easy confirmation hearing for his appointment to the Federal Appeals Court in February
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2003? Not a single ...Read (258) | Share | Discuss (9) | Read Full Story at americannewsproject.com
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The Torturers' Manifesto »
Posted by: Beau7890 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
To read the four newly released memos on prisoner interrogation written by George W. Bush's Justice Department is to take a journey into depravity ...
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Senators Seek Ethics Findings: Investigation Focuses on Opinions Issued in Bush Administration on Torture »
Posted by: Beau7890 10 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Two Senate Democrats urged the Justice Department yesterday to quickly release its findings of an ethics investigation into legal opinions under President George W. Bush ...
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DOJ Should Make All Records Public in Probe of Interrogation Memos »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
LAWYERS IN the Justice Department gave the Bush administration legal cover to use harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding. There is little dispute that some of ...
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The Bush Six to Be Indicted »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
The six defendants—in addition to Gonzales, Federal Appeals Court Judge and former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, University of California law professor and former ...
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Nothing but the Truth on Torture »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months ago in Political News
Alberto Mora says it’s “politically unthinkable” to criminally prosecute the top Bush administration officials who sanctioned torture. He also says it’s “legally unthinkable ...
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FBI Weren't the Only Ones Objecting to Torture in 2002 -- So Did the Army, Marines & Air Force »
Posted by: berkeley 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
There were already serious objections to the use of torture when the Bush administration made it legal in 2002 -- FBI chief Robert Mueller refused to ...
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Bush attorneys who wrote terror memo face backlash »
Posted by: Progressive 7 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
SAN FRANCISCO - Pressure is mounting against two former Bush administration attorneys who wrote the legal memos used to support harsh interrogation techniques that critics say ...
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The differing views of the "rule of law" in Spain and the U.S »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Scott Horton reports this morning that, in Spain, "prosecutors have decided to press forward with a criminal investigation targeting former U.S. Attorney General Alberto ...
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Jay Bybee: NYT Calls For Impeachment Of Torture Memo Author »
Posted by: azies 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Sunday's New York Times called on Congress to impeach federal judge Jay Bybee over his now infamous role in authoring one of the Bush ...
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No criminal case likely over torture memos »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
Justice Department officials have stopped short of recommending criminal charges against Bush administration lawyers who wrote secret memos approving harsh interrogation techniques of terror suspects ...
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Yoo and Other Bush Lawyers Investigated by Spanish Judge »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
My friend (and resident international law guru) Tony Arend notes a Harper's report that President Bush's so-called torture lawyers -- University of California law ...
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How To Torture The Bush Six »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Given that the United States is obligated under both domestic and international law to prosecute acts of torture, the legal consequences of the Obama administration ...
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