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Een rapport van de Marteling kon Groot Probleem voor de Advocaten van Bush spellen
Maandag, 16 Februari, 2009
Door Michael Isikoff | Newsweek
Een intern rapport van de Afdeling van de Rechtvaardigheid over het gedrag van hogere advocaten die het waterboarding goedkeurden en andere ruwe ondervragingstactiek veroorzaakt bezorgdheid onder vroegere het beleidsambtenaren van Bush. H. Stel Jarrett, leider van op de eenheid van de de ethiekwaakhond van de afdeling, het Bureau van Professionele Verantwoordelijkheid (OPR), vorig jaar bevestigd onderzocht hij of het juridische advies in essentiële ondervragingsmemoranda „met de professionele normen verenigbaar was die op Ministerie van de procureurs van de Rechtvaardigheid.“ van toepassing zijn Volgens twee goed geïnformeerde bronnen die niet vroegen worden geïdentificeerdn besprekend gevoelige kwesties, werd een ontwerp van het rapport voorgelegd in de definitieve weken van het beleid van Bush. Het kritiseerde scherp het wettelijke werk van twee vroegere hoogste ambtenaren? Jay Bybee en John Yoo? evenals dat van Steven Bradbury, die van het Bureau van Wettelijk Advies (OLC) in de tijd belangrijkst was werd het rapport voorgelegd, de bovengenoemde bronnen. (Bybee, Yoo en Bradbury gaven niet aan veelvoudige verzoeken om commentaar gevolg.) Maar toen? De procureur Algemene Michael Mukasey en zijn afgevaardigde, Teken Filip, hadden sterk tegen het ontwerp, volgens de bronnen bezwaar. Filip wilde het rapport reacties van alle drie bovengenoemde hoofden, één van de bronnen, een vroegere hoogste het beleidsadvocaat van Bush omvatten. (Mukasey kon niet worden bereikt; zijn vroegere leider van personeel gaf niet aan verzoeken om commentaar gevolg. Filip ook keerde geen telefoonbericht.) OPR terug nu wil de reacties omvatten alvorens een definitieve versie aan Algemeen Eric Holder van de Procureur Jr. wordt voorgesteld. De „kwestie wordt herzien,“ de bovengenoemde woordvoerder Matthew Miller van de Rechtvaardigheid. Als de Houder de bevindingen OPR goedkeurt, zou het rapport kunnen worden verstuurd om staafverenigingen voor mogelijke disciplinaire actie te verklaren. But some former Bush officials are furious about the OPR’s initial findings and question the premise of the probe. “OPR is not competent to judge [the opinions by Justice attorneys]. They’re not constitutional scholars,” said the former Bush lawyer. Mukasey, in speeches before he left, decried the second-guessing of Justice lawyers who, acting under “almost unimaginable pressure” after 9/11, offered “their best judgment of what the law required.” But the OPR probe began after Jack Goldsmith, a Bush appointee who took over OLC in 2003, protested the legal arguments made in the memos. Goldsmith resigned the following year after withdrawing the memos, and later wrote that he was “astonished” by the “deeply flawed” and “sloppily reasoned” legal analysis in the memos by Yoo and Bybee, including their assertion (challenged by many scholars) that the president could unilaterally disregard a law passed by Congress banning torture. OPR investigators focused on whether the memo’s authors deliberately slanted their legal advice to provide the White House with the conclusions it wanted, according to three former Bush lawyers who asked not to be identified discussing an ongoing probe. One of the lawyers said he was stunned to discover how much material the investigators had gathered, including internal e-mails and multiple drafts that allowed OPR to reconstruct how the memos were crafted. In a departure from the norm, Jarrett also told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee last year he would inform them of his findings and would “consider” releasing a public version. If he does, it could be the most revealing public glimpse yet at how some of the major decisions of Bush-era counterterrorism policy were made. Have Your Say: A Torture Report Could Spell Big Trouble For Bush Lawyers Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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