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May 6, 2009

Justice Dept. Torture Memo Probe Rules Out Prosecution
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Prospects are dimming for the prosecution of Bush administration lawyers
who authorized the torture of foreign prisoners. In a draft report,
Justice Department investigators say the lawyers—John Yoo, Jay Bybee and
Steven Bradbury—shouldn’t face criminal charges for authoring memos that
backed a range of abuses including waterboarding and physical assault.
The report, however, does say they showed serious lapses in judgment and
recommends referring Yoo and Bybee to their state bar associations for
possible disciplinary action, including disbarment. Bybee is an appeals
court judge, while Yoo is a professor at the University of California,
Berkeley.



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