The Justice Department’s highest-ranking career official has been at the center of a debate over whether and to what extent the lawyers who blessed the use of brutal interrogation methods should be punished.
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Video: Protesters at Hearing on Torture Memos
Two women from the CodePink women for peace organization asked pointed questions of Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) about his selection of witnesses.
Senators Question DAG on OPR Report
Republicans criticized the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility for its handling of the OLC investigation, while Democrats took shots at Bush administration national security policies. UPDATED 1:18 p.m.
Grindler’s Prepared Statement on OPR Report
Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary G. Grindler’s prepared testimony at a Senate Judiciary hearing on Feb. 26, 2010 the Office of Professional Responsibility report.
Internal DOJ Ethics Office is Broken, Panel Says
Panelists at a forum roundly criticized the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility report on the conduct of former DOJ lawyers who wrote memos that formed the legal basis for harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects.
Did Margolis Get It Right?
The experts have begun to weigh in. Law professor David Luban wrote that the 40-plus-year veteran of the Justice Department went after the Office of Professional Responsibility “like a defense lawyer, upped the burden of proof beyond what the ethics rules require, and minimized the liberties that Yoo and Bybee had taken with the law.”
How Bybee Turned Liberal Critics’ Writings To His Advantage
The views of President Obama’s long-stalled Office of Legal Counsel nominee Dawn Johnsen and other liberal lawyers were part of the behind-the-scenes battles over the final shape of a Justice Department investigation of authors of the so-called “torture memos.”
A Timeline of the OPR Report
More than five years in the making, the Justice Department’s report on the conduct of the lawyers who authorized waterboarding has been released. And now we know why it took so long.
Human Rights Group Renews Appeal for Torture Memo Report
One year after two Democratic senators sent a letter inquiring about the status of the Office of Professional Responsibility’s investigation of the authors of the “torture memos,” the report still has not been released.
Taking Hits from the Right, Holder Also Faces An Unsatisfied Left
While criticism from the right of the political spectrum has dominated the headlines, the Attorney General also has disappointed some liberal civil liberties organizations.
