• Posts Tagged ‘Jay Bybee’

    DOJ Clears Bush Lawyers for Torture Memos

    by  • February 1, 2010 • politics & money

    I missed this. For weeks, the right has heckled Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. for his plans to try the alleged 9/11 conspirators in New York City and his handling of the Christmas bombing plot suspect. Now the left is going to be upset: an upcoming Justice Department report from its ethics-watchdog unit, the Office [...]

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    2004 CIA Torture Report Fallout: Power Shuffle

    by  • August 25, 2009 • politics & money

    Administration reactions to the Office Of The Inspector General’s report on CIA Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities: [The Obama Administration] wrested control of future interrogations of suspected senior al-Qaeda members away from the CIA and handed it to an interagency group that will be housed at the FBI — whose agents had not only objected [...]

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