Lawyers in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel who produced memorandums opining that certain brutal interrogation tactics could be used on terrorism suspects without violating U.S. law may have used “flawed” legal reasoning but they were not guilty of professional misconduct, according to a Jan. 5 DOJ review of an internal ethics report.
In a 69-page memorandum released Feb. 19, Associate Deputy Attorney General David Margolis rejected the findings of the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which recommended in a July 2009 paper that Jay Bybee and John Yoo should be referred to their local state bars for ...
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