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30 Apr 2009, 6:46 am
[JURIST] Chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] Patrick Leahy (D-VT) [official profile; JURIST news archive] on Wednesday invited [press release and letter] former head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) [official website] and federal judge Jay Bybee [official profile], who signed off on memos detailing the legal rationale for enhanced interrogation techniques, to [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 11:36 pm by Orin Kerr
I’ve mostly stayed out of the debate over whether John Yoo and Jay Bybee should be disciplined by DOJ for the so-called torture memos. [read post]
14 Jan 2009, 11:09 am
In an article on Slate Bruce Ackerman calls for the impeachment of Jay Bybee  on the ground that Judge Bybee is a suspected war criminal and performed incompetently with regard to certain memoranda as head of the OLC. [read post]
16 Apr 2009, 5:15 pm
(See, for example, Jeffrey Toobin's "I haven't read them but Jay Bybee is a federal judge! [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 12:08 pm by Jeralyn
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]
15 Jul 2010, 12:48 pm by Jeralyn
The House Judiciary Committee has released the deposition transcript of former Bush legal counsel Jay Bybee, author of two infamous memos on enhanced interrogation techniques, aka torture. [read post]
28 Apr 2009, 9:18 pm
"Torture Memo Author Not Seen As Ideologue": This audio segment (RealPlayer required) about Ninth Circuit Judge Jay S. [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 6:42 am
Think Progress reports that Judge Bybee has been asked to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee:Today, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) sent a letter to Judge Jay Bybee inviting him to testify about his "views" about torture and his "role" in drafting the torture memos. [read post]
18 Aug 2004, 11:44 am
Clarke Paulus, who faces court-martial in the death of an Iraqi prison inmate, will not be allowed to subpoena federal Judge Jay Bybee, who, while serving as head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, wrote memos saying the Geneva Conventions don't apply to some prisoners of war. [read post]
6 May 2009, 6:23 am
The Justice Department said it’s nearing the completion of an internal probe expected to recommend professional sanctions — but no criminal prosecution — of John Yoo and Jay Bybee (pictured) — two principal authors of the memos. [read post]
17 Apr 2009, 6:07 am
Might there be ramifications for Jay Bybee, whose memo sanctions waterboarding because it does not inflict “prolonged mental harm? [read post]
1 Apr 2008, 10:15 am
Think about that: Either Jay Bybee -- who actually signed the August 2002 torture memo concerning the CIA -- did not know of this explosive memorandum, or it was so implausible that Bybee refused to issue it to the Pentagon. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 6:55 am
The fallout from the release of the OLC Memos will be an impeachment inquiry into Judge Jay Bybee of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, who signed the 2002 memo authorizing waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques. [read post]
17 Apr 2009, 9:09 am
Blair, Director of National Intelligence, responding to the release of additional torture memos by Steven Bradbury, Jay Bybee, and John Yoo.MEMORANDUM FROM STEVEN BRADBURY, JAY BYBEE, AND JOHN YOO, OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL, TO JOHN RIZZO, GENERAL COUNSEL, CIA:You have asked for this Office's views on whether the technique known as "second-guessing" would violate the prohibition on torture found at Section 2340A of title 18 of the United… [read post]
13 May 2009, 9:04 pm
Circuit Judge Jay Bybee has declined to give Senate testimony on the memos he approved while at the Justice Department that supported harsh interrogation methods for detainees. [read post]
23 Apr 2009, 7:46 am
Permit me to invent a similar but short memo that will allow the reader, without reading the approximately 120 densely packed pages of the four memos, to grasp their style, their character, their techniques, their aims, and, inherently and unavoidably, the nature of the people who wrote or signed off on them: John Yoo, Jay Bybee and Steven Bradbury. [read post]
21 Apr 2009, 8:00 am
Blair, Director of National Intelligence, responding to the release of additional torture memos by Steven Bradbury, Jay Bybee, and John Yoo.MEMORANDUM FROM STEVEN BRADBURY, JAY BYBEE, AND JOHN YOO, OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL, TO JOHN RIZZO, GENERAL COUNSEL, CIA:You have asked for this Office's views on whether the technique known as "second-guessing" would violate the prohibition on torture found at Section 2340A of title 18 of the United… [read post]
23 Apr 2009, 6:09 am
The odds are long, experts say, that the likes of John Yoo (left) and judge Jay Bybee could be criminally prosecuted. [read post]