DOJ Report on Yoo, Bybee's Legal Work on Torture to Be Released by Month's End [View All]

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DOJ Report on Yoo, Bybee's Legal Work on Torture to Be Released by Month's End
Thursday 19 November 2009
by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report

A long-awaited Justice Department watchdog report that is said to be highly critical of the legal work three attorneys who worked at the agency's powerful Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) conducted for the Bush administration will be released at the end of the month, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday during testimony before a Senate committee.

"The report is completed. It's in its last stages of review now," Holder said in response to a question by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, (D-Rhode Island), who queried the attorney general about the status of the report. "A career prosecutor has to review the report. We expect that process should be done by the end of the month. At that point, the report should be issued."

As I previously noted, the report, prepared by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), is said to have reached "damning" conclusions about numerous cases of "professional misconduct" in the legal advice former OLC attorneys John Yoo, Jay Bybee and Steven Bradbury provided to the White House about the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques."

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