Lawyers who authored interrogation memos should be disbarred: coalition
A coalition of progressive organizations Monday filed disciplinary complaints with five state bar associations seeking the disbarment of 12 former US government officials associated with the legal rationales behind the Bush administration's use of enhanced interrogation techniques [JURIST...
Bybee declines Senate committee request to testify on interrogation memos
Former head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and federal judge Jay Bybee , who signed off on memos detailing the legal rationale for enhanced interrogation techniques, has declined an invitation to testify ...
Bush-era interrogation techniques discussed at Senate panel hearing
In the first hearing on whether Bush administration interrogation techniques constituted torture, one witness before the Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts on Wednesday called memos on enhanced interrogation methods "an ethical train wreck"...
Lawyers who authorized torture 'disgraced profession': JFK counsel Sorensen
Ted Sorensen, former special counsel to US President John F. Kennedy, said in a commencement address at the University of Nebraska College of Law Saturday that lawyers from the Department of Justice (DOJ)...
DOJ not recommending prosecution of CIA interrogation memo authors: report
US Department of Justice (DOJ) investigators have concluded that three former Bush administration lawyers responsible for authoring controversial CIA interrogation memos should not face criminal prosecutions, according to Wednesday media reports. A draft report...
Abu Ghraib guards to appeal convictions after release of interrogation memos
Lawyers for former Abu Ghraib guards said the guards intend to appeal their convictions of torture and abuse in light of the recent release of four secret CIA interrogation memos , according to a Friday...
Senate judiciary committee chair asks Bybee to testify on interrogation memos
Chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on Wednesday invited former head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and federal judge Jay...
Not the Better Part of Valor: Obama's Duty to Prosecute Torturers
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that President Obama's expressed intent to immunize CIA employees who violated US laws banning torture and cruel treatment while interrogating prisoners breaches the President's constitutional duty to "take...
US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he would not rule out the possibility of prosecuting lawyers responsible for authoring memos released last week outlining CIA interrogation policies. Obama had previously said that he would not...
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says "the whole world is watching" efforts in the United States - highlighted at a recent conference at Andover - to bring U.S. high-level civilians and/or generals...
