Steven Bradbury

What We Need To Hear About the Torture Report

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Opr, Doj, Patrick Leahy, Terrorism, Truth Commission, Office of Professional Responsibility, Guantanamo, 9/11, John Yoo, Steven Bradbury, Office of Legal Counsel, September 11, Senate, White House, Jay Bybee, Cia, Justice Department, Counterterrorism, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Guantanamo Detainees, Senate Judiciary Committee, David Addington, Torture, Politics News
Daphne Eviatar

On Friday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the investigation into the Justice Department memos that authorized the torture of detainees in U.S. custody during the Bush administration.

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Who Told Yoo To Do Those 'Bad Things'?

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daphne Eviatar

If White House officials were instructing the 'torture memo' authors to create legal justifications for a program those officials knew was likely illegal, then we have evidence of a high-level criminal conspiracy.

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The OPR Report Is Only the Beginning

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Olc, Doj, George W. Bush, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Convention Against Torture, John Yoo, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice, Walling, Jay Bybee, Steven Bradbury, Counterterrorism, Dick Cheney, Criminal Conspiracy, Waterboarding, Jack Goldsmith, Opr Report, Torture, Guantanamo, John-Yoo-Professional-Misconduct, Politics News
Daphne Eviatar

The final OPR report is only the beginning. We still don't know who asked Yoo and Bybee to write these memos, what specific instructions they were given or if they were they pressured to reach a particular conclusion.

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Remember the OPR Report?

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jay Bybee, Richard Durbin, Barack Obama, Doj, Justice Department, Office of Professional Responsibility, Eric Holder, John Yoo, Sheldon Whitehouse, Steven Bradbury, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Daphne Eviatar

The longer the administration hems and haws and tinkers with the ethics report before releasing it, the more the stain of the past administration's transgressions becomes its own.

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Tortured Logic

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Office of Legal Counsel, Jay Bybee, Government Accountability, John Yoo, Aclu, Steven Bradbury, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Anthony D. Romero

2009-08-06-aclupull.jpgIn "Tortured Logic," a video released by the ACLU today, you'll hear well-known people like Oliver Stone, Rosie Perez and Philip Glass, read from those chilling Justice Department torture memos.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: May 7, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Jay Bybee, Wolf Blitzer, Chris Matthews, Labor Law Reform. Blackwater, John Yoo, Doritos, Unions, Steven Bradbury, Torture Memos, Torture, Eat the Press, Media News

Earlier this week, Rachel Maddow discussed the ongoing saga of the torture memos, and how the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsib...

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Jason Linkins

Maddow: Torture Memo Authors Should Go To Jail (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Justice, Rachael Maddow, Video, Steven Bradbury, Jay Bybee, Michael Isikoff, Bush Torture, John Yoo, Torture Memos, Torture, Eat the Press, Politics News

Media Monitor Brian C. directs attention to a segment from last night's edition of the Rachel Maddow Show, in which the host responded to the recent n...

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Who Authorized The Torture of Abu Zubaydah?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thailand, George W. Bush, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, Donald Rumsfeld, Fbi, Steven Bradbury, Dick Cheney, Office of Legal Counsel, Politics, Jay Bybee, Sere, Condoleezza Rice, Vice President Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, R. Scott Shumate, Sleep Deprivation, Cia Music Torture, Colin Powell, Music Torture, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, David Addington, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Jane Mayer, George Tenet, American Torture, Ron Suskind, James Risen, Breaking Politics News, New York Times, Waterboarding, William J. Haynes II, International Committee of the Red Cross, Torture Memos, Torture, World News
Andy Worthington

For the defendants of the use of torture by U.S. forces -- still led by former Vice President Dick Cheney -- this has been a rocky few weeks.

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Torture, Done in Our Name

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rick Horowitz

If the rest of us are to live with ourselves, if we're to regain our own consciences, first we have to see it for what it was, and call it by its rightful name, this thing that was done in our name.

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Jay S. Bybee: It's Not Torture If You Use A Caterpillar

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph A. Palermo

I never thought I would be having arguments with people about the merits of torture, which goes to show you how low Bush sunk the general level of American political discourse.

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The Torture Memos: Berlin, 1937 Version

Shayana Kadidal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jay Bybee, Nazi Germany, Torture, John Yoo, OLC Memos, George W. Bush, Steven Bradbury, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Shayana Kadidal

The memorandum, issued by the Reich Ministry of Justice, followed a meeting of several Justice Ministry lawyers and public prosecutors with several high-level Gestapo officials. It speaks for itself.

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Impeach Bybee: The Growing Movement to Unseat Bush Torture Lawyer Turned Federal Judge

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russ Feingold, Bruce Ackerman, Jerrold Nadler, President Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Habeus Corpus, Democratic Party, Steven Bradbury, Barack Obama, Office of Legal Counsel, Judge Jay Bybee, Center for Constitutional Rights, Jay Bybee, Jan Schakowsky, Bob Fertik, Michael Ratner, New York Times, David Swanson, Alberto Gonzales, President George W. Bush, Torture Memos, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

The UN has indicated that Obama's refusal to prosecute torturers may be a violation of International law.

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Will Obama Block Release of Key Bush-era Torture Memos?

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, White House, Bradbury Memos, George W. Bush, President Obama, Obama State Secrets, State Secrets, John Brennan, CIA Torture, Steven Bradbury, Eric Holder, Office of Legal Counsel, Obama White House, Jay Bybee, Bagram, Eric Holder Attorney General, Glenn Greenwald, Financial Crisis, ACLU Torture, Leon Panetta, C.I.A., Leon Panetta CIA, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

As has been pointed out by journalists, human rights lawyers and critics, President Obama has continued -- and continues to defend -- some of the Bush administration's most repressive "War on Terror" policies.

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Bush Nominates Torture Advocate To Senior Justice Post

NY Times | PHILIP SHENON and ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C.I.A. interrogation techniques was renominate...

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