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6 Jul 2010, 4:08 pm
IR-2010-082 states that the IRS has barred a CPA from future IRS practice for failure to exercise due diligence in the preparation of his clients’ tax returns: WASHINGTON — The Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has prevailed in an agency appeal involving issues which include the due diligence [...] [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 12:55 am
EST: The Office of Professional Responsibility (“OPR”) has been expanded recently in light of the Service’s interest in upgrading the quality of tax practice and as... [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 9:16 am
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on February 26 on the troubling findings of an investigation by the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) into the Office of Legal Counsel’s memoranda on issues relating to the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” commonly referred to as the “torture memos. [read post]
3 Mar 2010, 1:22 pm
In the wake of the release of the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) report (PDF) and the Justice Department's decision to reject OPR's findings (PDF), it's even more crucial that Americans take action and demand accountability for the torture that was done in our name. [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 11:15 am
It had to happen, as night follows day.After David Margolis concluded that the Bybee Memos showed mere "poor judgment" rather than professional misconduct, it was only a matter of time before someone would spin Margolis into an endorsement of the memos. [read post]
24 Feb 2010, 5:57 am
Let me refer readers to a good overview of deficiencies in federal oversight of prosecutorial misconduct by the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility from the blog EmptyWheel, following up on analyses by Mike at Crime and Federalism and recent journalistic critiques. [read post]
24 Feb 2010, 5:56 am
But that is where OPR, playing a junior varsity CIA, wanted to lead us. [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 9:11 pm
I've only had time to give a cursory read to John Yoo's response to the Office of Professional Responsibility's report; one section that grabbed my attention was Yoo's argument that OPR failed to account for the factual circumstances surrounding the writing of the memoranda at issue. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 2:20 pm
The Office of Professional Responsibility Report, which recommended that he be referred to the bar for disciplinary proceedings, found that Yoo's intent to distort could be inferred from his consistent pattern of twisting every possible angle to reach the legal conclusion he desired (CIA interrogators can torture with impunity), combined with his failure to acknowledge weaknesses in his analysis.What's odd about Margolis's conclusion is that it implicitly… [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 9:36 am
The Report of the Office of Professional Responsibility dated July 2009 is here, and the memo of Associate Deputy Attorney General David Margolis rejecting key findings of the OPR Report, dated January 2010, is here. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 8:55 am
An internal ethics investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) concluded that Yoo had committed “intentional professional misconduct when he violated his duty to exercise independent legal judgment and render thorough, objective and candid legal advice. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 7:17 am
" (from http://abcnews.go.com story about a Congressional hearing scheduled on the report for next week)Here are the original reports from the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) that Margolis overturned with that report. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 5:47 am
YOO AND BYBEE CLEARED, but Jennifer Rubin is unhappy with DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 2:12 am
” The lead investigator was the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) which issued a report recommending referring John Yoo and Jay Bybee to their state bars for disciplinary proceedings. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 5:39 pm
In October 2004, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) began its investigation of the DOJ lawyers who were involved in writing the torture memos. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 4:46 pm
But Margolis argues that the Office of Professional Responsibility chose too high a standard to judge the professional responsibility of Yoo and Bybee. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 2:54 pm
The Department of Justice OPR (Office of Professional Responsibility) Report on the torture (interrogation) memos from the Bush Administration has been released. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 4:53 pm
The long awaited Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility report into the quality and probity of the work produced on coercive interrogation by John Yoo and Jay Bybee while working in the Office of General Counsel has reportedly undergone internal revisions neutering its findings. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 12:08 pm
The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility report on whether the authors of the Bush era torture memos violated professional ethical standards is going to reverse course and absolve John Yoo and Jay Bybee of wrongdoing. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 10:14 am
Newsweek reveals the findings of the report from the Office of Professional Responsibility: While the probe is sharply critical of the legal reasoning used to justify waterboarding and other "enhanced" interrogation techniques, NEWSWEEK has learned that a senior Justice official who did the final review of the report softened an earlier OPR finding. [read post]
