Dem Rep (Nadler) Sends Yoo And Bybee Materials To Bar Associations For Potential Discipline

[kpete]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Dem Rep Sends Yoo And Bybee Materials To Bar Associations For Potential Discipline
Justin Elliott | February 26, 2010, 4:55PM


Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) has forwarded materials on the writing of the torture memos to state bars where John Yoo and Jay Bybee are licensed, calling on the bar association to consider possible disciplinary action, Nadler's office announced today.

The torture memo report produced by the Justice Department's ethics office concluded that Yoo, now a professor at Berkeley, and Bybee, now federal judge on the ninth circuit, committed professional misconduct in their drafting of the memos that authorized report.

But top DOJ official David Margolis overruled that finding and barred the ethics office from referring the batter to state bars in Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, where Bybee and Yoo are members, respectively.

Nadler said he was "disappointed that, at the end of this lengthy process, we are now left with apparent confusion within the Department of Justice regarding the appropriate standards of conduct for its attorneys."



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[pleah]

1. Where are the prosecutions? n/t

[philly_bob]

2. Nadler was my rep for a while. He doesn't get headlines but he's great.

Everytime I check, he's voted progressive.

I remember once during the Bush-era I was in Washington for a march to end the war in Iraq. The crowd walked to the Capitol, and Nadler was the only Representative who was outside, chatting with marchers, with no visible security. That takes physical courage.

[aquart]

6. Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine!

He scared me silly when he got stapled. What a risk.

[No Elephants]

3. The United States Dept. of Justice has already said publicly that its investigation

indicated no complaint with the bar was warranted.

So, given that, what do you think the state bar overseers will do?

Department of "Justice?"

[conservdem]

4. I doubt they have to follow the conclusions of the person

who reviewed the matter at the justice department.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Department of JINO

[Jefferson23]

5. Nadler is a good guy, he tries, more than many others do.

[derby378]

7. Oooooooh, disbarrment. They're so scared.

What a fucking pathetic response to lawyers who helped Bush legalize torture.

[totodeinhere]

8. They both have tenure and nothing short of criminal prosecution can touch them. Except of course...

that Bybee could be impeached and removed from the bench, but the votes certainly are not there for that.

[AML]

9. Whether the votes are there or not....

...I'd still like to see Bybee impeached, even if he isn't removed from office!

[defendandprotect]

10. Thanks once again, Rep. Jerry Nadler!! ABA should have been acting on this!!

[mvd]

12. I sure hope these war criminals get something

Seeing Yoo's gloating article in the Philadelphia Inquirer today was sickening. I just don't understand why there hasn't been some change in the Justice Department.

[L. Coyote]

13. professional misconduct in their drafting of the memos that authorized "report" ???

professional misconduct in their drafting of the memos that authorized "TORTURE"

How does this happen ??? editing out the word torture ???

[Supersedeas]

14. David Margolis -- not his first go round with political damage control

[Supersedeas]

15. David Margolis -- not his first go round with political damage control