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harpers.org - 4/20/2009
Impeach Jay Bybee—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)
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Scott Horton The nation’s paper of record reviews the latest batch of torture papers and reaches the fairly obvious conclusion that a thorough investigation of this disgraceful episode should start with the lawyers who betrayed their calling by sanctioning criminality. It issues the second call ...
ccrjustice.org - 4/21/2009
Impeach Torture Architect Jay Bybee | Center for Constitutional Rights
— ccrjustice.org — Synopsis Description Last week, President Obama released four torture authorization memos written by the Office of Legal... Counsel (OLC) under the Bush administration that devised a legal framework for the justification of the Torture Program. The memos ... (more) Impeach Torture Architect Jay Bybee | Center for ...

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PetitionOnline.com - 4/19/2009
Tell the CDP - Support the Resolution To Impeach Jay Bybee Petition
— PetitionOnline.com — Tell the CDP - Support the Resolution To Impeach Jay Bybee Petition... (more) Tell the CDP - Support the Resolution To Impeach Jay ...

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harpers.org - 4/20/2009
Revealing the Secrets in Room 101—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)
— harpers.org — Scott Horton On Thursday the spirit of George Orwell visited America, three times. The first visit can... be found in four memoranda prepared by Bush Administration lawyers which gave the actual go-ahead for the use of specific torture techniques on ... (more) Revealing the Secrets in Room 101—By Scott Horton ...

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Torture? Just Walk On By …
Opinionator — ... target, somewhat by process of elimination. On Friday President Obama said he did not want anyone who relied on the Bush memos to be prosecuted. Yesterday, White House chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel said “ Obama’s no-prosecute list also included those who devised the policies .” But as a sitting justice, Bybee can be impeached, and the calls for his impeachment are starting to sprout. The Times editorial page called for impeachment yesterday . Matt Yglesias and Scott Horton have concurred, as did Emily Bazelon at Slate , who writes: It would be ...

David Murdock: The Jay Bybee Problem (VIDEO)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — As pressure grows for Congress to remove Judge Jay Bybee from his seat on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, people are revisiting the process that put him there in the first place. Bybee sailed through his Senate confirmation hearing just six months after signing memos legalizing CIA torture of detainees. No Democrats questioned Bybee at his confirmation hearing and the following month he was approved for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. How is that possible? This video produced by the American News Project features attorney and Harper's Magazine contributing editor and Yale University law professor Bruce Ackerman ...

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