Bush Rejected Ashcroft's DOJ Picks In Favor Of Torture-Legalizing Loyalist
Then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft offered the White House a list of five candidates to lead the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel in ear...
Then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft offered the White House a list of five candidates to lead the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel in ear...
Errol Morris | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
There are smoking guns for our prisoner abuse everywhere but people pretend they don't exist. How many torture memos does an administration have to promulgate before the public gets the idea they are promulgating torture?
Barry Yourgrau | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics
The Nuremberg Trials established the precedent that a lawyer does not get to enable war crimes and plead "it's just an opinion." That kind of opinion is an act -- an act of enabling war crimes.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics
What a horrific statement that some have opted to take their own lives rather than participate in practices that go against their principles.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics
Media coverage of the disclosure of the "torture memo" authored by Bush Justice Department official John C. Yoo has been mostly a deafening silence. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics
What if they disclosed a torture memo and nobody cared? This week, an 81-page memo, authored by John C. Yoo, who was a deputy in the Office of Legal ...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
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Washington Post | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics