Comments on: Torture Whitewash: How “Professional Misconduct” Became “Poor Judgment” in the OPR Report

By: The Progressive Mind » Trial at Guantánamo: What Shall We Do With The Torture Victim? :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [gd]

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:57:13 +0000

[...] however much John Yoo, a compliant lawyer in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, said it wasn’t in a series of notorious memos that will forever be known as the “torture memos,” [...]

By: Abu Zubaydah And Silencing Of Guantánamo’s 'High-Value Detainees': CIA Censors Drawings - OpEd

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:37:52 +0000

[...] colleague Jason Leopold at Truthout has been doggedly pursuing a number of important stories about the Bush administration’s torture program, and the lack of accountability for those who authorized or implemented aspects of the program. [...]

By: Guantánamo: Las comisiones militares y la ilusión de justicia | Comunicacion Popular

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:24:47 +0000

[...] los abogados del Departamento de Justicia –John Yoo y Jay S. Bybee- quienes pretendieron que se aprobara su uso, aunque no hay situación alguna en la que los abogados puedan intentar justificar el uso de la [...]

By: Guantánamo: Las comisiones militares y la ilusión de justicia | Amauta

Guantánamo: Las comisiones militares y la ilusión de justicia | Amauta — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:32:58 +0000

By: Ten Years After 9/11 America Deserves Better Than Dick Cheney’s Self-Serving Autobiography - OpEd

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:59:24 +0000

[...] at bay those who are aware that he and other Bush administration officials were responsible for authorizing the use of torture by US forces, and that torture is a crimein the United States.As a result, Cheney knew that, on the [...]

By: Torture Whitewash: Probe Of Two CIA Murders Ends Obama Administration’s Investigation Of Bush’s Global Torture Program - OpEd

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:54:54 +0000

[...] into John Yoo and Jay S. Bybee, lawyers at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, was cynically overturned by a DoJ fixer, David Margolis. Yoo had written the notorious “torture memos,” issued on August 1, 2002, that purported to [...]

By: On Bush’s Waterboarding Claims, UK Media Loses Its Moral Compass by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:13:44 +0000

[...] to redefine torture so that it could be used by CIA operatives under Bush’s command — was whitewashed in February this year. Although the original report concluded that the lawyers in question — John Yoo and Jay S. Bybee [...]

By: On Guantánamo And Torture, Campaigners Send Letter To Justice Department – OpEd « Eurasia Review

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:22:31 +0000

[...] tooth and nail, in case after case, to ensure that no US official need suffer any consequence for having committed or authorized torture. And it has worked to prevent any victim of US torture from securing justice in any court, [...]

By: The Dark Desires Of Bruce Jessen: The Architect Of Bush’s Torture Program – OpEd « Eurasia Review

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:01:04 +0000

[...] as we now know to our disappointment — and to America’s undying shame — there was no political will to pursue those in the Bush adminstration who did all they could to drag America down to the level [...]

By: Algerian in Guantánamo Loses Habeas Petition for Being in a Guest House with Abu Zubaydah « Eurasia Review

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:18:38 +0000

[...] more “high-value detainees” seized in the “War on Terror” — was implemented, which was formally approved by lawyers in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel — in what are now referred to as [...]