DOJ cuts loose DOMA and the Bush torturers. Why?

Why now? Someone fill me in. Did POTUS bring in somone to give him advice. Who? Better late than never. There is still a lot of good that POTUS can do to bring back the base even assuming Congress gets zero done. I hope this trend continues.

outside lawyers to defend the torturers as for the DOMA's I don't know but it sounds like they are not supporting it because of a phrase in section 3 of the law.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x589928

and

http://blog.reidreport.com/2011/02/holder-unleashed-justice-drops-rumsfeld-wolfowitz-doma-defense/

I believe the case on torture & illegal detention can go to court now. We the People are no longer Bush & Co. defense team. It appears they had to wait until a court ruling that could eventually make it to the supreme court was decided and then they dumped them. DOJ & Obama appear to have to wait until a case was ruled on first.

excerpt from reidreport:

The decision comes a week after a SC judge dismissed a lawsuit Padilla filed against Rummy, Wolfowitz and several military officers over his confinement, ruling that the discovery process could reveal state secrets. But a second case, one pulling in torture memo author John Yoo, is going forward, and likely to wind up before the Supreme Court. The Obama Justice Department had already stopped defending Yoo.