torture is wrong

After 8 years of imprisonment and torture, Abdul Hamid Al Ghizzawi, an innocent man, is finally released

http://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001430.html 

“In the meantime, Al-Ghizzawi languished at Guantanamo, and languished... as he has for the last eight years. And while he languished, his health deteriorated-- he suffered tuberculosis and liver disease, and at one point, was told by the military that he had AIDS... and then, when Candace brought a motion to demand access to his medical records... he was promptly told that he didn't have AIDS after all. His eyesight has deteriorated. We won't even talk about the mental state of a man cut off from his family--indeed, from all humanity as most of his confinement was in solitary confinement, in the company only of guards and interrogators.” 

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/02/25/the-mock-burial-in-the-opr-report/ 

http://www.slate.com/id/2243737/

Torture Bored - How we've erased the legal lines around torture and replaced them with nothing.

Dahlia Lithwick at Slate

http://www.slate.com/id/2245531/

David Margolis is wrong - Justice Department's ethics investigation shouldn't leave John Yoo and Jay Bybee home free.

Davis Luban at Slate

http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/02/when_you_are_done_reading_this.php

The OPR report: this era's 'Hiroshima

James Fallows at The Atlantic

http://harpers.org/archive/2010/02/hbc-90006587

Quid Pro Quo

Scott Horton at Harpers

http://harpers.org/archive/2010/02/hbc-90006582

Unredacting the OPR Report

Scott Horton at Harpers

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/02/22/opr/index.html

The flailing falsehoods of America's war criminals

Glenn Greenwald for Salon

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2010/02/yoo-bybee-and-hall-of-mirrors-of-legal.html

Yoo, Bybee, and the Hall of Mirrors of Legal Argument

Jack Balkin at Balkinization  

Here it is : http://www.scribd.com/doc/27133902/OPR-Report-On-Torture-Memos

From Margolis’s cover letter;

OPR concluded that former Office of Legal COusnel (OLC) attorneys John Yoo AND Jay Bybee engaged in professional misconduct by failing to provide "thorough, candid, and objective" analysis in memoranda regarding the interrogation of detained terrorist suspects. Consistent with OPR's usual procedures, OPR indicated its intent to refer its finding of misconduct to the state bar disciplinary authorities in the jurisdictions where Bybee and Yoo are members.

[snip]

For the reasons stated below, I do not adopt OPR's findings of misconduct. This decision should not be viewed as an endorsement of the legal work that underlies those memoranda. However, OPR's own analytical framework defines "professional misconduct" such that a finding of misconduct depends on application of a known, unambiguous obligation or standard to the attorney's conduct. I am unpersuaded that OPR has identified such a standard. For this reason and based on the additional analysis set forth below, I cannot adopt OPR's findings of misconduct, and I will not authorize OPR to refer its findings to the state bar disciplinary authorities in the jurisdictions where Yoo and Bybee are licensed.

OPR concluded that former Office of Legal COusnel (OLC) attorneys John Yoo AND Jay Bybee engaged in professional misconduct by failing to provide "thorough, candid, and objective" analysis in memoranda regarding the interrogation of detained terrorist suspects. Consistent with OPR's usual procedures, OPR indicated its intent to refer its finding of misconduct to the state bar disciplinary authorities in the jurisdictions where Bybee and Yoo are members.

[snip]

For the reasons stated below, I do not adopt OPR's findings of misconduct. This decision should not be viewed as an endorsement of the legal work that underlies those memoranda. However, OPR's own analytical framework defines "professional misconduct" such that a finding of misconduct depends on application of a known, unambiguous obligation or standard to the attorney's conduct. I am unpersuaded that OPR has identified such a standard. For this reason and based on the additional analysis set forth below, I cannot adopt OPR's findings of misconduct, and I will not authorize OPR to refer its findings to the state bar disciplinary authorities in the jurisdictions where Yoo and Bybee are licensed. 

The Washington Post underwrites Dick Cheney’s Great Torture Tour

Commentary on same

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/29/post/index.html

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/08/the-washington-posts-support-for-torture.html

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/08/29/the-wapo-declares-itself-unable-to-find-the-truth/

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/083009a.html

The Evidence Mounts Still Further by Andrew Sullivan

At Best, A Baby Step Toward Justice For Bush's Torturers by Dan Froomkin, Huffington Post

Seven Points on the CIA Report by Scott Horton

The CIA Inspector General's Torture Report: First Reactions from CCR by Senior Managing Attorney Shayana Kadida