Former Bush Officials Work to Soften Ethics Report on Interrogations

[kpete]

Source: Washington Post

Former Bush Officials Work to Soften Ethics Report on Interrogations

By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 5:02 PM

Former Bush administration officials are launching a behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign to urge Justice Department leaders to soften an ethics report criticizing lawyers who blessed harsh detainee interrogation tactics, according to two sources familiar with the efforts.

In recent days, attorneys for the subjects of the ethics probe have encouraged senior Bush administration appointees to write and phone Justice Department officials, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the process is not complete.

A draft report of more than 200 pages, prepared in January before Bush's departure, recommends disciplinary action by state bar associations, rather than criminal prosecution, against two former department attorneys in the Office of Legal Counsel who might have committed misconduct in preparing and signing the so-called torture memos. State bar associations have the power to suspend a lawyer's license to practice or impose other penalties.

The memos offered support for waterboarding, slamming prisoners against a wall and other techniques that critics have likened to torture. The documents were drafted between 2002 and 2005.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/05/AR2009050502219_pf.html

[alfredo]

1. I guess the intense lobbying by bushbots worked

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/05/AR2009050502219_pf.html

[Wednesdays]

2. K&R

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[ConcernedCanuk]

3. "soften" - yeah right - wrap them baseball bats with towels, carpet the water boards

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USA trying to cover up their torture behavior

I got a better idea

Charge, convict and punish all the torturers,

Yes - even the previous POS that was the POTUS

Shoulda NEVER given Nixon a free ride;

The BFEE watched and learned.

Then it raped the taxpayers.

WAKE UP USA - PLEASE!!!

[Festivito]

4. Maybe it's not Obama stretching himself too thin on too much.

Maybe it's that the CONs can't stretch themselves to cover up everything we can investigate all at once.