Bush Renominates Author of Interrogation Memos as Assistant Attorney General(Bradbury)

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

Bush Renominates Author of Interrogation Memos as Assistant Attorney General
The Associated Press
January 24, 2008

President Bush renominated Steven G. Bradbury as assistant attorney general Wednesday, refusing to yield to Democrats who oppose a permanent job for the official who signed legal memos authorizing harsh interrogations for suspected terrorists.

Bradbury has been serving as acting chief of the Justice Department's Office of Legislative Counsel. Bush wants the Senate to confirm Bradbury as permanent head of the office.

Senate Democrats complain that two secret memos from Bradbury in 2005 authorized the CIA to use head slaps, freezing temperatures and waterboarding -- a practice that invokes drowning fears -- when questioning terrorism detainees.

The memo controversy left Bradbury, a founding member of the conservative Federalist Society, with no confirmation hearing before senators began a four-week break in December.



Read more: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1201082548300&rss=newswire

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Bush Pushes Justice Dept. Nominee


By DAVID STOUT
Published: January 23, 2008
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Wednesday renominated Steven G. Bradbury to be an assistant attorney general in a move certain to be controversial because of Mr. Bradbury’s link to Justice Department memorandums authorizing the harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects.

Mr. Bradbury, who is from Maryland, has been serving as acting head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department, in effect the department’s lawyer. If confirmed, he would become the office’s permanent head.

In his capacity as acting head, Mr. Bradbury came under intense scrutiny last fall when it was disclosed that he was the author of a pair of secret legal opinions that endorsed rough techniques for suspects in the custody of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate majority leader, is among those Democrats who have said that the methods endorsed by Mr. Bradbury amount to torture. Last December, Mr. Bradbury’s nomination was one of several that were sent back to the White House by Mr. Reid rather than carried over into the New Year.

more:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/washington/24bradburycnd.html

[ananda]

1. Cave..

nt

[Solly Mack]

2. ho hum

let's all get outraged over the actions of a war criminal unitary executive because we're all just so shocked a war criminal unitary executive is behaving like a war criminal unitary executive.

Wanna "shock" me?

Impeach and Remove

then

Indict and Incarcerate.

That would really shock me.

As horribly criminal as the Bush administration is, the fact that they're still in office is worse. What that says about America ain't good.

As bad as Bush is for America's "image", that he's still in office makes for a far worse "image" problem. Again, what that says about America ain't good.

Folks can't keep talking about how bad/criminal the Bush administration is and then not do anything about it. It's not just Bush that looks bad then.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Justice Department Nomination Seen as Snub to Democrats: Nominee authored memos approving torture

Source: New York Times

By PHILIP SHENON and ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: January 24, 2008

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C.I.A. interrogation techniques was renominated by the White House on Wednesday to a senior department post, a move that was seen as a snub to Senate Democrats who have long opposed his appointment.

The lawyer, Steven G. Bradbury, who has run the department’s Office of Legal Counsel without Senate confirmation for more than two years, has been repeatedly nominated to the job of assistant attorney general for legal counsel. But the earlier nominations stalled in the Senate because of a dispute with the Justice Department over its failure to provide Congress with copies of legal opinions on a variety of terrorism issues. Under Senate rules that place a time limit on nominations, Mr. Bradbury’s earlier nominations expired.

Late last year, Democrats urged the White House to withdraw Mr. Bradbury’s name once and for all and find a new candidate for the post after it was disclosed in news reports in October that he was the author of classified memorandums that gave approval to harsh interrogation techniques, including head slapping, exposure to cold and simulated drowning, even when used in combination. Mr. Bradbury’s memorandums were described by Democrats as an effort by the Bush administration to circumvent laws prohibiting torture and to undermine a public legal opinion issued by the Justice Department in 2004 that declared torture to be “abhorrent.”...

Joe Shoemaker, a spokesman for Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, said that by putting Mr. Bradbury’s name forward again as a nominee, “the president has thumbed his nose at Congress and chosen an individual who has been involved in authorizing some of the most controversial policies of this administration.” Mr. Durbin led the previous efforts to reject Mr. Bradbury’s nomination and sits on the Judiciary Committee, which would have to approve the nomination....

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/washington/24justice.html?ref=todayspaper

[SpiralHawk]

4. Down with the amoral brutal republicon torture machine

Enough amoral occult anti-christian lies and brutality from the republicon homelanders. Impeach them all before they drag America even deeper into the cesspool. "Family values" my ass.

[rodeodance]

5. Justice Nomination Seen as Snub to Democrats

Source: nytimes



Justice Nomination Seen as Snub to Democrats
Michael Temchine for The New York Times

Senate Democrats have contested repeated attempts to appoint Steven G. Bradbury to a senior Justice Department post.


By PHILIP SHENON and ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: January 24, 2008

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C.I.A. interrogation techniques was renominated by the White House on Wednesday to a senior department post, a move that was seen as a snub to Senate Democrats who have long opposed his appointment.

The lawyer, Steven G. Bradbury, who has run the department’s Office of Legal Counsel without Senate confirmation for more than two years, has been repeatedly nominated to the job of assistant attorney general for legal counsel.

But the earlier nominations stalled in the Senate because of a dispute with the Justice Department over its failure to provide Congress with copies of legal opinions on a variety of terrorism issues. Under Senate rules that place a time limit on nominations, Mr. Bradbury’s earlier nominations expired.

Late last year, Democrats urged the White House to withdraw Mr. Bradbury’s name once and for all and find a new candidate for the post after it was disclosed in news reports in October that he was the author of classified memorandums that gave approval to harsh interrogation techniques, including head slapping, exposure to cold and simulated drowning, even when used in combination...........

Read more: to Hillary saying Obama was giving FALSE hope and that MLK couldn't have realized his "dream" without the help of LBJ,

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Playing nice gets the Dems NOwhere fast!

[Doctor_J]

6. Times adopts WH language

"...endorsed rough techniques for suspects..."

TORTURE. The word is TORTURE

[Supersedeas]

7. does this leave any doubt about Mucksey if this is the assistant?