Mukasey Delayed Report Criticizing Authors of Torture Memos
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey delayed a report last fall by the Justice Department’s ethics unit that criticizes three lawyers who wrote the so-called torture memos approving harsh interrogation tactics for terrorism suspects. The report by the Office of Professional Responsibility “sharply criticizes” three former Justice Department officials, according to Newsweek, which broke the story. They are Jay Bybee, now a judge on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; Joh
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