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Obama to release OLC torture memos; promises no prosecutions for CIA officials - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com »
Posted by: ForrestPhelps 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
In a just-released statement, Barack Obama announced that -- in response to an ACLU FOIA lawsuit -- he has ordered four key Bush-era torture memos released, and ...
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Bush's legal foes, Obama's legal team »
Posted by: berkeley 10 months, 1 week ago in Political News
President Barack Obama is staffing his Justice Department with some of his predecessor's fiercest critics, and lawyers who have spent years defining the limits ...
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The Woman Who Could Nail Bush: Are the Worst of the Torture Memos Still to Come? »
Posted by: berkeley 8 months ago in Political News
On March 19, the nomination of Indiana University law professor Dawn Johnsen to head the OLC was endorsed by the Judiciary Committee with every Republican ...
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Republican Opposition To Release Of Torture Memos »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
Last week, I argued that opposition to torture was the reason why State Department Counsel nominee Harold Koh and Office of Legal Counsel nominee Dawn ...
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The Bigger Picture »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
It will take some time to absorb the full implications of the ICRC report and the OLC memos. Right now, many are understandably focused on ...
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The End of the Yoo Doctrine »
Posted by: tehranchik 9 months ago in Political News
The Office of Legal Counsel has just released a series of previously secret opinions from the Bush Administration. Perhaps equally important, it has issued two ...
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Torture Memo Author Advocated Presidential Pardons, Jury Nullification »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
A Bush administration attorney who approved harsh interrogation techniques of terror suspects advocated in 2006 that President Bush set aside recommendations by his own Justice ...
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Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and Abused) Missing Prisoner »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Among the OLC memos released today [1], one appears to inadvertently reveal that a top al-Qaida suspect captured in northern Iraq in January 2004 was ...
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OLC Interpretation Would Allow Waterboarding of U.S. Citizens »
Posted by: Progressive 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Former State Department adviser Philip Zelikow at this morning's Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing testified that when he saw the so-called torture memos written ...
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Thou Shalt Not Blog -- Obama's OLC nominee discovers the perils of "blogging, advocating, and speeching." »
Posted by: berkeley 9 months ago in Political News
In fact, Johnsen's sternest reprimand of the day comes from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who warns that the problems of the last eight years ...
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Spanish Judge Resumes Torture Case Against Six Senior Bush Lawyers »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Back in March, Judge Garzón announced that he was planning to investigate the six prime architects of the Bush administration’s torture policies — former ...
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High Priests of OLC Turned CIA Torture Into Holy Acts »
Posted by: rumple4skin 7 months, 1 week ago in News
No apparent increase in susceptibility to severe pain has been observed either when techniques are used sequentially or simultaneously — for example, when an insult slap ...
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Obama's impressive new OLC chief - Glenn Greenwald »
Posted by: berkeley 11 months ago in Political News
The Office of Legal Counsel, inside the Justice Department, is probably the most consequential federal government office that remains relatively obscure. The legal opinions which ...
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Civil rights group to Obama: Release secret Bush memos »
Posted by: ParticleMan 10 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is calling on the Justice Department to release Bush administration documentation pertaining to torture, surveillance and other controversial national ...
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How a Health Benefits Law Formed the Basis For the 'Torture Memo' »
Posted by: JasonLeopold 7 months ago in Political News
John Yoo, the author of one of the infamous Aug. 1, 2002, "torture" memos that formed the legal basis for so-called "enhanced" interrogation techniques against ...
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