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Article: Fairness in the Torture Probe; Why the Justice Department should embrace disclosure in its investigation of Bush administration legal advice
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 10, 2009
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LAWYERS IN the Justice Department gave the Bush administration
legal cover to use harsh interrogation techniques, including
waterboarding. There is little dispute that some of the legal work
was sloppy or overbroad, including breathtaking assertions about the
president's powers; in fact, some memos were retracted or revised by
Bush administration officials who took office after the memos were
in effect. Now there is an intense debate about whether the lawyers
responsible for the original memos should be stripped of their
licenses for providing faulty advice or for tailoring their
recommendations to bless Bush administration acts they knew or