ccrjustice.org - 4/21/2009
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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 were released as part of a Freedom of ...
huffingtonpost.com - 4/17/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
Rep. Jerry Nadler, a senior Democrat on the
House Judiciary Committee, called Monday for the impeachment of...
federal judge Jay Bybee, one of the principal authors of the torture memos released last week by the Obama administration. "He ought to be ...
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Nadler: Impeach Torture Memo Author
PetitionOnline.com - 4/19/2009
feingold.senate.gov - 4/20/2009
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feingold.senate.gov —
From the Senate Floor March 13, 2003 Mr.
President, I will oppose the nomination of Jay Bybee...
to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. I was not able to attend the hearing that was held on Mr. Bybee because of Secretary Powell's presentation that ...
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U.S. Senator Russ Feingold on the Nomination of Jay Bybee
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Looking Forward
Obsidian Wings —
... I know which option I choose. In the meantime, though, impeaching Jay Bybee would be a start. There's a petition here.
Looking Forward
Political Animal —
... about the prosecutions of the CIA officers. But I care immensely about prosecuting Cheney, Addington, Yoo, Bybee, Bradbury, and people like them. And I care precisely because I am looking to the future. We can choose to be a nation of laws in which criminals of any station are held accountable, or we can just hope that no one like George W. Bush is ever elected again. I know which option I choose. In the meantime, though, impeaching Jay Bybee would be a start. There's a petition here .— ...
Pye-ratical Solutions. US Has No Moral Legitimacy
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man —
... Also, the Truth-o-Meter won a Pulitzer, the first time a paper won for web content... Link to impeach Federal Judge Jay Bybee who was an architect of the torture memos. Our confiscated, seventeen-year-old Somalian pirate ...
Jeremy Scahill: Jay Bybee's Rules at Home: "Be Nice. Don't Hit." Bybee's Rules for the CIA: Torture Prisoners
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... to demand that Rep. John Conyers, chair of the Judiciary Committee, hold a hearing to determine whether grounds exist for Bybee's impeachment. As the Center for Constitutional Rights points out: ...
History of CIA Torture: Unraveling the Web of Deceit, Part V
The BRAD BLOG —
... You can also add your name to a petition by the Center for Constitutional Rights to impeach Jay Bybee by linking right here. The Center for Constitutional Rights has drafted a letter to Attorney General Holder seeking the appointment of a special prosecutor whose task will not be restricted to the relatively rare instances in which CIA employees exceeded the infamous OLC torture memos. You can sign that ...
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Center for Constitutional Rights
salsa.democracyinaction.org 4/21/2009 — We need your help to impeach one of the legal architects of the Bush administration Torture Program who is now, incredibly, a federal judge. Last week, President Obama released four torture authorization memos written by the Office of Legal Counsel ...
Impeach Jay Bybee (video)
youtube.com 4/30/2009 — http://www.moveon.org/bybee/ Jay Bybee is responsible for some of the worst of the Bush torture memos. And now? He's a federal judge. Jay Bybee showed no res...
: It's Time to Impeach Jay Bybee
mydd.com 4/19/2009 — Re: It's Time to Impeach Jay Bybee ( none / 0 ) Because it's new information. The threshold of impeaching judges is lower than impeaching presidents because a) it's a lifetime appointment and b) they're not subject to elections. Does giving the ...
Impeach Jay Bybee
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 4/22/2009 —
ThinkProgress is starting up a campaign to gather petitions in support of the proposition that congress needs to hold impeachment hearings on Judge Jay Bybee, one of the key architects of the Bush-era torture regime. After noting that Bybee ...
TAKE ACTION: Campaign to Impeach Judge Jay Bybee
librarygrape.com 4/21/2009 — If you're anything like me, you read about things like the rampant torture and abuse that took place during the Bush administration and think to yourself "What can I do?" Well, the time has come for you to do something concrete with your anger and rage. Sign on to the Think Progress campaign to ...
Justice -- Impeach Judge Bybee
pr.thinkprogress.org 4/28/2009 — JUSTICE Impeach Judge Bybee Last week, President Obama released four Bush-era Office of Legal Counsel memos that had authorized torture. "In dozens of pages of dispassionate legal prose , the methods approved by the Bush administration for extracting ...
: Torture Memos: Impeach Judge Bybee
calitics.com 4/17/2009 — (We're going to be hearing a lot about this. I wanted to make sure that the resolution was in order, but apparently so. It is a moral outrage to have this man sitting in judgment of anyone right now. - promoted by David Dayen ) The torture memos ...
Support the resolution to impeach Judge Jay Bybee
couragecampaign.org 4/20/2009 — "These memos are not an honest attempt to set the legal limits on interrogations....They were written to provide legal immunity for acts that are clearly illegal, immoral and a violation of this country's most basic values.... These memos make it ...
: Feingold: Torture Memos Suggest Grounds To Impeach Bybee
mydd.com 4/21/2009 — Statement released today from Sen. Feingold: "The just released OLC memos, including the 2002 memo authored by Jay Bybee, are a disgrace. The idea that one of the architects of this perversion of the law is now sitting on the federal bench is very ...
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