Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Ron Weich wrote to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) on May 4 about the status of the long-delayed Office of Professional Responsibility report on Bush DOJ lawyers John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and Steven Bradbury, authors of the controversial legal opinions authorizing brutal interrogation tactics. Read the letter here.
Weich also the Justice Deparment historically has released only summaries — if that — of OPR reports, but given the intent public interest the department is “reviewing some of these procedures” for the report on the memo authors.
Weich also said the department was unable “at this time” to answer congressional questions about an OPR investigation of allegations of selective prosecution against Alabama Governor Donald Siegelman, Georgia Thompson, Dr. Cyril Wecht, Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz and Mississippi attorney Paul Minor.
