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<br> Michael Isikoff writes in Newsweek that the DOJ Office of Professional<br>Responsibility has been investigating whether the legal advice <br>authorizing torture met DOJ professional standards. Their draft report<br>criticizing John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and Steven Bradbury angered <br>then-Attorney General Mukasey when it was submitted to him late<br>last year. It is currently being revised to include comments from<br>the three subjects before it is submitted to the new AG, Eric Holder.<br><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)"><style type="text/css">
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<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/184801">http://www.newsweek.com/id/184801</a><br><BR><br> Isikoff told Rachel Maddow on Monday that last year the report <br>found that "the entire legal edifice of Bush counter-terrorism policy <br>was based not just on shoddy legal analysis but unprofessional and <br>potentially unethical legal analysis" and it recommended that the <br>issue be referred to state bar associations for possible disciplinary <br>action. Isikoff doubts that the repudiation of Yoo's memos would <br>change the legal environment for the CIA guys who did the torturing <br>and who thought what they did was legal. (Jonathan Turley said <br>a few weeks ago that the underlings have an "estoppel defense" but <br>Bush and his immediate underlings do not.) Isikoff says the DOJ <br>investigators had emails and drafts recording the creative process of <br>Yoo's memos and the report goes into the question of the degree to <br>which Bush administration officials dictated Yoo's legal opinions--possibly <br>telling him what they wanted instead of asking him for an opinion. <br><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)"><style type="text/css">
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6JArB2p7lo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6JArB2p7lo</a><BR>
<br> John Yoo has taken a year's leave from Berkeley to teach at <br>Chapman University in Orange County. An article in the LA Times<br>credits World Can't Wait and Curt Wechler's outfit<meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)"><style type="text/css">
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<a href="http://firejohnyoo.org/">FireJohnYoo.org <br></a><BR>Way to Go, Curt!<br><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)"><style type="text/css">
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<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-yoo11-2009feb11,0,7413410.story">http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-yoo11-2009feb11,0,7413410.story</a><BR>
<br> I first became aware of Michael Isikoff when he wrote an unfair <br>attack on "Fahrenheit 911". Later he was a co-author of a very<br>impressionistic Newsweek article after Cheney's hunting accident that<br>says that an early draft of the 9/11 Commission report made AG<br>Gonzales "extremely agitated" when it expressed skepticism about <br>Cheney's 9/11 story. Newsweek's account casts doubt on Cheney's <br>claim that he got the required authority from Bush before he ordered <br>flight 93 shot down and, for those familiar with the facts of Flight 93, <br>can be viewed as a hint that maybe he did shoot it down. The final<br>9/11 Commission report was "toned down" and it says Cheney did not <br>reach the White House bunker until 9:58, too late to have ordered a<br>successful shootdown of Flight 93. But Newsweek says he got there <br>at 9:35. <br><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)"><style type="text/css">
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<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/56896/page/6">http://www.newsweek.com/id/56896/page/6</a><BR> (Norm Mineta insists he saw Cheney in the bunker at 9:20 discussing <br><BR>an apparent shootdown orderon flight 77, but neither Newsweek or the <br><BR>9/11 Commission mention that.)<BR><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/56896/page/6"><br></a><BR>
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