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How Jay Bybee Has Approved The Prosecution Of CIA Operatives For Torture

By thepublicrecord on | From pubrecord.org
Jay Bybee is now a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Photo/Wikimedia Last Thursday, Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan), the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, released the previously undisclosed testimony of Jay S. Bybee, delivered to the Committee on May 26 as part of its investigations into advice given by Justice Department lawyers to the Bush administration regarding the use of torture in the “War on Terror.” Bybee, now a judge in the Ninth Circuit Court...Read Full Story

Congressman: Questions on CIA interrogations

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The House Judiciary Committee chairman said Thursday that an interview with a former Justice Department official shows the department did not authorize some of the harsh interrogation techniques reportedly used by the CIA. Rep. John Conyers of Michigan made the comments after the committee interviewed former assistant attorney general Jay Bybee, who is now a federal appeals court judge. During the Bush administration, Bybee's Justice Department office wrote legal opinions governing the...Read Full Story

Bush attorneys who wrote terror memo face backlash

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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...Read Full Story

Judge takes step to air his viewson torture

| From lasvegassun.com
WASHINGTON — As criticism of federal appellate court Judge Jay Bybee mounts for authorizing harsh interrogation techniques as a Bush administration lawyer, the Nevada jurist has reached out to members of the state’s congressional delegation, apparently to tell his side of the story. The step suggests that Bybee believes maintaining the judicial branch’s customary distance from the political process is no longer in his best interest. Congress has the power to remove him from his seat on the...Read Full Story

Jay Bybee's Conspiracy To Torture

By RSDReports on | From robertstevenduncan.com
By Dave Lindorff If the day comes that Congress finally does its duty and begins an impeachment effort against 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Judge Jay Bybee, the former Bush assistant attorney general who in 2002 authored a key memo justifying the use of torture against captives in the Afghanistan invasion and the so-called “War on Terror,” it would be fitting punishment to watch him squirm as his own words as a judge were played back to him. It was as an Appeals Court Judge Bybee, sitting on a...Read Full Story
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The return of Waterboarding?
The return of Waterboarding?Press TVAssistant Attorney General (now federal appeals judge) Jay Bybee submitted his now-infamous memo to the White House in 2002 arguing that “severe” pain meant pain equivalent to “organ failure” and that short of this standard, state-inflicted pain would ...and more »  
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The age of wrong
The age of wrongTehran TimesJohn Yoo, professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley, assistant US attorney general from 2001 to 2003 under George W. Bush, and drafter of the Torture Memo, writes, “Because of the Obama administration's reluctance to confront this ...and more »  
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University of St. Thomas, Robert Delahunty, Gitmo and the legacy of torture...
University of St. Thomas, Robert Delahunty, Gitmo and the legacy of tortureTwin Cities Planet (blog)Delahunty co-wrote the infamous Torture Memo with John Yoo that provided the rationalization the Bush Administration needed to begin torturing anyone they wanted. Sadly, the Obama Administration has defended torture and taken steps to expand their ...  
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Guantanamo, il carcere che ha salvato l'Occidente
L'OccidentaleGuantanamo, il carcere che ha salvato l'OccidenteL'OccidentaleI terroristi sono stati interrogati secondo regole senz'altro molto dure, l'uso dell'isolamento ha assunto proporzioni serie, anche se come dice John Yoo, il giurista che preparò il «torture memo» per Bush, la proibizione di Ginevra di apportare ...and more »  
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