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2 Sep 2010, 6:57 pm
Judge Jay Bybee - he of the torture memo - dissents. [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 1:57 am
They were the get out of jail free card.Next, we have Jack Goldsmith carefully dancing around the Yoo/Bybee torture memos in a pair of letters to the CIA dated May 27th 2004 and July 7, 2004. [read post]
25 Jul 2008, 8:44 pm
In part one memo concluded: that for an act to constitute torture…[p]hysical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death… Commonly referred to as the Bybee Memos, they were drafted by current Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo and Jay Bybee (then head of the OLC and now a Federal Judge). [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 1:21 pm
After the Abu Ghraib photographs surfaced and the Washington Post published a redacted version of the August 1, 2002 Bybee/Yoo torture memo in 2004, Jack Goldsmith — Jay Bybee's replacement as the head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) — announced he was withdrawing the OLC's 2002 legal opinions. [read post]
29 Nov 2006, 5:22 am
Bybee (most well-known for his controversial pre-robesecent writing, namely, the so-called Bybee Memo). [read post]
2 Mar 2015, 11:00 pm
His boss, Rice, gave policy approval to the tactics in July 2002, pending legal sign-off by the Department of Justice, which came one week later, in the now infamous August 1, 2002 memo drafted by Yoo and Bybee. [read post]
17 Jul 2010, 7:45 am
Main Justice reports that according to recently released testimony from Jay Bybee, some of the CIA interrogation techniques exceeded what the OLC memos had suggested was lawful. [read post]
10 Apr 2009, 10:52 am
The memos, authored by then-administration officials and now University of California law professor John Yoo, federal appellate judge Jay Bybee and former Justice Department lawyer Stephen Bradbury, apparently grant authority for the brutal treatment of prisoners, including waterboarding, isolated confinement in coffin-like containers, and "head smacking. [read post]
9 Jun 2010, 2:35 pm
Abu Zubaydah's account should be read side-by-side with this August 1, 2002 memo written by the Office of Legal Counsel's John Yoo (and signed by Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee) that specifically describes every one of the terrors he describes legal — as it is in this video clip featuring David Cole and Art Spiegelman at an ACLU-PEN American Center “Reckoning With Torture” event in New York City in October 2009. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 11:17 am
Bybee. [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 10:01 pm
Yoo and federal appellate Judge Jay S. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 2:51 am
" The NYT states that: "The first of the [interrogation] memos from August 2002 was signed by Jay S. [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 5:00 am
Six of the twenty-seven judges on the Circuit, including Jay Bybee who while working for the Bush administration wrote a memo supporting extraordinary rendition recused themselves from the vote. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 11:50 am
Some of those activists now work in the Obama Justice Department and have been hoping the Department would find two Bush-era lawyers in particular, John Yoo and Jay Bybee, guilty of professional misconduct - a move that would likely result in both men facing disbarment proceedings. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 10:25 pm
Jay S. [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 9:43 am
Here is the abstract: The February 19th, 2010 release of a memorandum by the Justice Department clearing former Bush Administration lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee of any professional misconduct for their roles in authoring the so-called torture memos may have closed the chapter on the case against Bush Administration lawyers for formal sanctions from the United States government. [read post]
13 May 2009, 2:38 pm
Senators today debated whether they should investigate John Yoo, Jay Bybee and Stephen Bradbury, former lawyers with the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, over their involvement with memos that authorized harsh interrogation practices. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 9:27 am
Bradbury was named to succeed Daniel Levin, the acting head who had signed the Dec. 30, 2004 memorandum officially rejecting the Feb. 1, 2002 memo authored by John Yoo (and signed by Jay Bybee) authorizing what most reasonable observers would describe as "torture. [read post]
22 Dec 2014, 10:17 am
Against this background, we write, [T]he failure to conduct a comprehensive criminal investigation would contribute to the notion that torture remains a permissible policy option for future administrations; undermine the ability of the United States to advocate for human rights abroad; and compromise Americans' faith in the rule of law at home As to the officials who should be investigated, the Times editorial names former Vice President Dick Cheney; Cheney's chief of staff, David… [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 11:45 am
Board of Professional Responsibility to disbar William Haynes II, John Choon Yoo, and Alberto Gonzales for their participation in the torture memos. [read post]
