The Department of Justice is still working on the report prepared by an agency watchdog that probed several legal opinions John Yoo and two other former attorneys who worked at the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) wrote for the Bush White House on torture, an agency spokeswoman said Wednesday. “The [review] process is ongoing and we hope to have [the report] complete and released soon,” Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler told Truthout.
January 8, 2010 | Filed under
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A close reading of the CIA’s Inspector General Report and the Senate Intelligence Committee’s narrative on the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) torture memos reveals a more detailed picture of the CIA’s involvement in the construction of those documents.
September 27, 2009 | Filed under
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The Spanish newspaper Público reported exclusively on Saturday that Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against six senior Bush administration lawyers for implementing torture at Guantánamo.
September 8, 2009 | Filed under
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From the Archive: John Yoo, the author of one of the infamous Aug. 1, 2002, “torture” memos that formed the legal basis for so-called “enhanced” interrogation techniques against high-level terrorist detainees, used a statute governing health benefits when he provided the White House with a legal opinion defining torture.
August 31, 2009 | Filed under
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CIA Director Leon Panetta has just shown himself to be an apologist of the highest order when it comes to torture-related crimes carried out by agency interrogators and contractors.
Panetta issued a statement in advance of the release later Monday of a critical 2004 inspector general’s report on the agency’s torture program. Panetta says the horrific [...]
August 24, 2009 | Filed under
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Congressman Jerrold Nadler, D-NY, warned Attorney General Eric Holder that if he decides to authorize a criminal investigation into torture it should not be limited to rogue CIA interrogators, but should also determine whether high-level officials of the Bush administration committed war crimes.
August 9, 2009 | Filed under
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Congressman Jerrold Nadler, D-NY, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder Tuesday reiterating his calls for a special prosecutor to probe the Bush administration’s use of torture against alleged “high-value” detainees captured in the “war on terror” and pressed Holder not to limit any possible investigation into interrogators who acted in “bad faith.”
It’s the [...]
August 4, 2009 | Filed under
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Obama administration officials are engaged in talks that may result in White House Counsel Gregory Craig’s resignation, the Wall Street Journal reported early Tuesday.
The Journal reported that Craig has had “a rocky tenure” over some national security issues that have become “political liabilities” for President Obama.
“These include the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, [...]
August 4, 2009 | Filed under
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney Cheney pressured George W. Bush and other top administration officials to deploy U.S. soldiers to a Buffalo NY suburb to arrest suspected terrorists, according to a report.
Using American soldiers for domestic law enforcement purposes would have been unprecedented. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 generally prohibits the armed forces from [...]
July 24, 2009 | Filed under
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The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act request Wednesday to gain access to a legal memo prepared by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) that reportedly contains information on the constitutional rights that Guantánamo detainees could legally claim during military commission proceedings in the U.S.
Additionally, the May 4 memo [...]
July 15, 2009 | Filed under
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