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April 7, 2009

Report: Senate GOP Threatens to Block Nominees Over Torture Memo
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Attorney and blogger Scott Horton is reporting that Senate Republicans
are threatening to filibuster two top Justice Department nominees if the
Obama administration releases secret Bush administration memos that
authorized the torture of prisoners. The nominees are Dawn Johnson as
chief of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice and
Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh as State Department legal counsel.
Horton writes, “It now appears that Republicans are seeking an Obama
commitment to safeguard the Bush administration’s darkest secrets in
exchange for letting these nominations go forward.”



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