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16 Jul 2010, 4:33 pm
[Dan Levine] Anyone wondering why Ninth Circuit Judge Jay Bybee signed the controversial torture memos when he worked at the Justice Department should read the fascinating transcript (.pdf) of a House Judiciary Committee interview conducted in May. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 6:05 pm
John Yoo's and Jay Bybee's memoranda as lawyers in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel providing the legal basis for certain interrogation techniques--the torture memos--were "flawed," but reflected no professional misconduct, according to a memo released today from David... [read post]
10 Feb 2013, 1:18 pm
Andrew Cohen at the Atlantic writes about Bush Administration torture memo author, now federal judge Jay Bybee's latest decision justifying torture. [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 10:17 am
Its latest effort: an interview with Judge Jay Bybee, former head of the department's Office of Legal... [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 5:37 pm
Looks like the impeachment fire surrounding Ninth Circuit Judge Jay Bybee is going to be deprived a lot of oxygen. [read post]
14 May 2009, 1:58 am
[JURIST] 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, has declined an invitation to testify [JURIST report] before the US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website], committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) [official profile] said [ [read post]
27 Nov 2009, 5:05 pm
Judge Jay S. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 1:04 pm
The drumbeat surrounding Ninth Circuit Judge Jay Bybee has only gotten louder since the White House released a graphic interrogation memo he signed while working for the Bush administration. [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 7:44 am
Judge Jay Bybee broke his silence on the torture memos Tuesday, in responses to questions from the New York Times. [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 6:03 am
Of the handful of individuals caught up in the controversy over the Bush administration memos that sanctioned the use of waterboarding and other coercive interrogation practices, the case of Jay Bybee has for some been the most perplexing. [read post]
7 May 2009, 6:42 am
In some ways, the controversy concerning John Yoo and Jay Bybee — the former Bush administration lawyers who wrote memos sanctioning the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation techniques, is dying down. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 7:17 am
The Department of Justice has spent five years investigating and carrying on an internal debate over the torture memos: was it professional misconduct for John Yoo and Jay Bybee to write and sign the memos that permitted the CIA to conduct waterboarding and other torture at Abu Ghraib and other "black ops" interrogation sites? [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 6:59 am
At the Legal Ethics Forum, John Steele has an incredibly useful post rounding up links to documents and commentary related to the Justice Department’s OPR report on the “torture memos” and AAG David Margolis’ memo, including drafts of the OPR report, responses from John Yoo and Jay Bybee’s lawyers and then-AG Michael Mukasey, and loads of blog commentary. [read post]
30 Apr 2009, 6:32 am
Former UNLV law professor Jay Bybee said none constituted torture while working for Bush. [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 4:49 pm
In the NYRB article "The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers," David Cole (Georgetown) provides a brief rehearsal of the major arguments, legal authorities, and chronologies surrounding the attorneys Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Daniel Levin, and Steven Bradbury, the... [read post]
16 Apr 2008, 6:33 am
But Jay Bybee was the boss. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 10:10 am
Previously, the report concluded that two key authors-Jay Bybee, now a federal appellate court judge, and John Yoo, now a law professor-violated their professional obligations as lawyers when they crafted a crucial 2002 memo approving the use of harsh tactics, say two Justice sources who asked for anonymity discussing an internal matter. [read post]
16 Jul 2010, 7:01 am
Bybee was questioned by the committee in May in a closed-door hearing about controversial memos written by the OLC during the Bush administration, which asserted the legality of certain enhanced interrogation techniques [JURIST news archive].... [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 9:59 am
My first-cut analysis of the Margolis Memo - which rejects the OPR recommendations that Jay Bybee and John Yoo should face professional discipline - is available on Slate.com here.Meanwhile, an unredacted footnote in the OPR Report reveals the identity of the Office of Legal Counsel lawyer who assisted John Yoo in writing the torture memo and apparently drafted the commander-in-chief sections. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 4:46 pm
That standard could not be met for Jay Bybee, because Bybee was, to put it bluntly, an empty suit who relied on the advice of others and didn't analyze the memos all that closely. [read post]
