Did You All Catch The Footnote In The Bradbury Memo Where YOO Is PROMISED Protection?

[kpete]

Also, the Times picks up on that footnote in the Steven Bradbury memo that we highlighted earlier. Reports the paper:

In a footnote to Mr. Bradbury's Jan. 15, 2009, memorandum sharply criticizing Mr. Yoo's work, Mr. Bradbury signaled that he did not want his repudiation of the legal reasoning employed by Mr. Yoo to be used against Mr. Yoo as part of the ethics probe.

Mr. Bradbury wrote that his retractions were not "intended to suggest in any way that the attorneys involved in the preparation of the opinions in question" violated any "applicable standards of professional responsibility."

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Why would Bradbury have gone out of his way to make this point -- especially in the context of repudiating those opinions?

Perhaps because the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has been working on a report on whether OLC lawyers violated standards of professional responsibility when they approved harsh interrogation tactics like water-boarding. And, as Newsweek revealed last month, a draft of the report is sharply critical of three senior OLC lawyers in particular -- John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and Steven Bradbury.

more at:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/03/is_footnote_in_olc_memo_designed_to_protect_its_au.php
and:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/03/more_olc_memos_to_come.php

[rurallib]

1. Hmmm - bet that opinion no longer applies.

Gitmo will be empty soon. I have an idea for some new residents.

[omega minimo]

2. Yoo is a slimeball who will have a shocker when he gets to whatever afterlife he's headed for

:puke:

[FiveGoodMen]

5. There's no afterlife -- punish him now or he gets away with it.

[chill_wind]

3. Good luck with that defense, Mr Bradbury.

Pathetic attempt at political CYA in the extreme, for them --and for himself.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=429834&mesg_id=429834

[chill_wind]

4. BTW, is Bradbury one of those held-overs

still at large in some temporary office at the Obama DOJ? We know where Yoo and Bybee went.
Where is Mr. Bradbury these days? Still writing memos and attempting to revise history?