Posted on 02/19/2010 4:28:47 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Justice Department lawyers showed "poor judgment" but did not commit professional misconduct when they authorized CIA interrogators to use waterboarding and other harsh tactics at the height of the U.S. war on terrorism, an internal review released Friday found.
The decision closes the book on one of the major lingering investigations into the counterterrorism policies of George W. Bush's administration. President Barack Obama campaigned on abolishing the simulated drowning technique of waterboarding and other tactics that he called torture, but he left open the question of whether anyone would be punished for authorizing such methods.
An initial review by the Justice Department's internal affairs unit found that former government lawyers Jay Bybee and John Yoo had committed professional misconduct, a conclusion that could have cost them their law licenses. But the Justice Department's top career lawyer reviewed the matter and disagreed.
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I’m sure DU and KOS are exploding. LOL!
L o L !
I guess I don't know to what extent, but I imagine Holder's DOJ has had all kinds of Bush administration lawyers and advisors in for questioning, just to let them spend their personal money--as with Scotter Libby--while the DOJ's lawyers sit flush on the taxpayer funded side of the table.
Part of the damage done by the Holder DOJ will have been to make sure talented conservatives/Republicans view it as financially unattractive and retirement-threatening ever to consider working in a non-leftist administration.
HF
“Bad news for the nutroots, Overbite and Madcow.”
The Radical Socialist Dems and thier Muslim allies spent YEARS ginning up the hate against Bush. They would have a tough time explaining this to their sheep ifollowers if the world were perfect. But the haters will simply go Orwellian, and act like it NEVER HAPPENED.
Here’s an example comment on CBS NEWS regarding Obama going after Bush’s lawyers in January 2009.
WARNING-THIS SHOWS EXTREME MENTAL INSTABILITY:
“The NAZI Fascist Bush Crime Regime
The Republican NAZI Fascist Party
Can Not get it Through Their Heads
The WHOLE World Knows
The Republican NAZI Fascist Party
Has Have Been - EXPOSED - For WHO they Really Are and
WHAT they Really Are !!”
I wonder what this Klown thinks now???
Friday news dump.
Thank you for posting this article.
I heard the report on FNC, but wanted to read an article.
...”shake things up”...
...That’s cruel!!!(-:
I have a friend who is a lawyer and left of center. She’s not a total liberal (she’s pro life for example but her other leanings make me call her left of center if that makes sense).
She says that this whole thing was scary. Being able to be prosecuted for decisions and legal opinion?
Some more info for you:
CIA OBAMA Coverup Treason Trial set for May 14-19, 2010
So says the highly educated African American minister: (watch the videos below)
Rev. James David Manning, Ph.D.
The Manning Report Mon-Fri 12-3 www.atlah.org
Author: The Oblation Hour
watch this video first
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WedxY61d60
watch this video second http://www.veoh.com/videos/v187772093A3tzX4H
Hoax? or Real? From my research and that of many others, this appears to be real.
Poor judgement? I am so SICK of Marxist. They’re going to get ‘more’ innocent Americans killed.
Eric Holder has been attempting to create a body of evidence that will enable terrorists in U.S. custody to sue the federal government, and former Bush officials, for millions. Prior to taking up his current post Holder was a senior partner at Covington and Burling, a law firm that represents 20 detainees. Holder proved how oblivious he was to professional ethics in 2000 when as a deputy attorney general he vigorously lobbied Bill Clinton on behalf of fugitive financier Marc Rich who had made the FBI’s most wanted list on numerous occasions over the last decade. Clinton granted Rich a pardon. Rich, in turn, donated millions to Clinton's library and foundation. Holder was in effect “the bag man” in the most controversial presdental pardon since Nixon got Jimmy Hoffa out of the can early.
I sure hope so. If I find one I will remind them that Dick Cheney said it was ok
(btw, GREAT photo of an empty mind!)
Our nation will never survive unless we treat our enemies as enemies.
Yes, your left wing lawyer friend is correct. This was a starling advance towards punishing people for thoughts and opinions, thought crimes. Very scary. And who is challenging it or protesting? Cheney is all I have seen.
Indeed, the farce here is just absoluitely French in its scope...
the infowarrior
Im starting to see the resemblance. Around the mouth, lower lip, and the eyes. The line from the nose to the corner of the mouth. The hairline.
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