Bush attorneys who wrote terror memo face backlash

[Liberal_in_LA]

Bush attorneys who wrote terror memo face backlash


By TERENCE CHEA, Associated Press Writer Terence Chea, Associated Press Writer – 25 mins ago

SAN FRANCISCO – Pressure is mounting against two former Bush administration attorneys who wrote the legal memos used to support harsh interrogation techniques that critics say constituted torture. John Yoo, a constitutional law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is fighting calls for disbarment and dismissal, while Judge Jay Bybee of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals faces calls for impeachment.

Justice Department investigators have stopped short of recommending criminal charges, but suggest in a draft report that the two men should face professional sanctions. A number of groups across the country agree, and some want even stronger action.

"We believe there is a lot of evidence to suggest that war crimes were committed," said Laura Bonham, deputy director of the Progressive Democrats of America, a group dedicated to rebuilding the Democratic Party. "We believe the memos provided the Central Intelligence Agency with the cover they needed to begin torturing detaines for information."

Bybee and Yoo worked in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and played key roles in crafting the legal justification for the interrogation techniques.

The draft report from an internal Justice Department inquiry sharply criticizes Yoo and Bybee and recommends referring their cases to state bar associations for possible disciplinary actions, a person familiar with the inquiry said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the inquiry.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090507/ap_on_re_us/ca_interrogation_memos;_ylt=AqUHFkvXKyj_0SG0QWmmWqlbIwgF

[Olney Blue]

1. Cheney and Bush will let them take the fall.

[seemslikeadream]

5. and do you think Yoo and Bybee will not roll on them?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

14. Oh, wouldn't that be delicious?

And can't you hear the screams of Chimpy and DeathStar as they rail about "attorney-client privilege," which, of course, won't fly in that situation?

Ah, a LaBamba can dream, can't she?

[seemslikeadream]

17. Why.........yes we can!

:hi:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

19. Yes, we can, indeed...........

:toast:

[seemslikeadream]

20. party time

[Tangerine LaBamba]

21. Not yet - close, but not yet

I wouldn't get the ice just yet.

I am betting that it will be Spain who does the dirty work, that Obama does not want to be the President who establishes the precedent of a new President investigating the alleged crimes of a previous President.

Mostly, I'm praying that Spain will carry this one out .....................................

(That's a GREAT emoticon, by the way!)

[derby378]

2. Ooooh! State bar associations! Be AFRAID!

To quote Judge Judy, "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining."

[northofdenali]

3. Backlash, HELL.

They should ALL be facing imprisonment on charges of treason.

[opihimoimoi]

4. There is a NEED for HUGH PRESSURE on Holder to appoint a SP ASAP

The whole system runs on the TRUTH....if ya want the best results that is....

The Truth needs to emerge soon...we should not ever fear Truth....

[seemslikeadream]

6. Yes and Spain is waiting in the wings

[opihimoimoi]

22. Ahhh so...This is good...International pressure no less...we will have no recourse to address this

sooner or later....but the pressure gauge has not yet reached the (MUST TAKE ACTION LEVEL)....I think as the noise nears a cresendo something most likely will happen in the direction of a SP being appointed with broad and reaching powers...most likely after Sen Franken is seated and Spector votes with the Dems....

Thus the patience displayed by the Administration re this concern

[MADem]

7. The wheels of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine! nt

[MadMaddie]

8. How can any university continue to employee these two

knowing how poorly they performed as lawyers? How are they helping future lawyers?:shrug:

[LakeSamish706]

9. They should face criminal charges... And I hope that the Spanish Prosecutor...

continues his pressure on the Bush Administration with respect to facing war crimes. Don't really care who prosecutes these thugs, just somebody please do it.

[Xipe Totec]

10. Half measures won't do

Pay your pound of flesh, John Yoo.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. I want them to be TRIED under our TORTURE statue

and they have to be the first ones to be prosecuted

Oh wait, silly me... we are an Empire, and Nuremberg was just victor's justice, mark my words!

[gratuitous]

12. These are the ideological soul mates

After they shot everything they had at Bill Clinton, the Republican bitter-enders finally got his Supreme Court bar ticket pulled after Clinton left office. I see no reason whatsoever not to yank the credentials of two of the legal architects of the most heinous crimes against humanity this century has seen.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

15. Clinton was suspended for five years,

wasn't he? He should be back in good standing by now. "Inactive," but in good standing.

[Octafish]

13. Send them to The Hague.

...of course, after their corruption and treason trials here.

[Fuzz]

16. Boo Hoo. Policy was set, then they looked for justification from whatever

idiots they could find. Be it Gitmo, torture, the invasion. Same M.O.

They are just useful idiots, so screw 'em.

[texastoast]

18. So nice to see torture back in some stories

The flu object is losing some sheen.

[Senator]

23. K&R

[leftofthedial]

24. oooh! "backlash"

they should be facing ACTUAL lashes on the back

and imprisonment or worse.

they are war criminals.

[davidpdx]

25. Backlash would be people going to their house and throwing big rocks

at their windows. These people are still living comfortably knowing they tortured other individuals. Too bad we don't have their home addresses to start mailing them little nooses.