Leahy Calls For Justice Department Investigation Into Missing John Yoo Emails

[babsbunny]

Leahy Calls For Justice Department Investigation Into Missing John Yoo Emails

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/26/yoo-email-deletion/

A long-awaited Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) report released last week found that lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee “had committed professional misconduct in writing legal opinions that authorized torture.” The OPR report revealed that many of Yoo’s emails had vanished:

e were told that most of Yoo’s records had been deleted and were not recoverable. Philbin’s email records from July 2002 through August 5, 2002 — the time period in which the Bybee Memo was completed and the Classified Bybee Memo (discussed below) was created — had also been deleted and were reportedly not recoverable.

The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) “called on Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the destruction of emails” and reported that “he destruction of these emails represents a blatant violation of the Federal Records Act (FRA) and may break criminal laws.”

[upi402]

1. Let's see the unrecs ya rule of law haters n/t

[Supersedeas]

2. Yet, another investigation--doesn't the fact that the emails are missing say more than enough

[jtrockville]

4. I thought the same regarding the outing of a US spy during wartime.

Wasn't Fitzgerald's investigation stymied because of "missing emails"?

[pleah]

3. All kinds of "investigations", but nothing to show for them. n/t