Judge defends signing interrogation memos

[struggle4progress]

By Neil A. Lewis
New York Times
Posted: 04/28/2009 07:50:36 PM PDT
Updated: 04/28/2009 09:10:39 PM PDT

WASHINGTON — Judge Jay Bybee broke his silence Tuesday and defended the conclusions of legal memorandums he signed as a Bush administration lawyer that allowed the use of several coercive interrogation practices on suspected terrorists.

Bybee, who issued the memorandums as the head of the Office of Legal Counsel and was later named to the federal appeals court by President George W. Bush, said in a statement in response to questions from the New York Times that he continued to believe the memos represented "a good faith analysis of the law" that properly defined the thin line between harsh treatment and torture ...

Bybee said he was issuing a statement after reports that he had regrets over his role in the memos, including a story in the Washington Post on Saturday to that effect.

http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_12249587?nclick_check=1



Bybee defends his torture memos as ‘legally correct’ and ‘a good-faith analysis of the law.’
By Faiz Shakir on Apr 28th, 2009 at 10:33 pm

... Bybee, "the man behind waterboarding," once said that he would like his "headstone to read, 'He always tried to do the right thing.'" The right thing would be for him to resign. If he does not do so, Congress should impeach him.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/28/bybee-defends-his-torture-memos/

[Solly Mack]

1. A person needs waders with all that good faith floating about

[struggle4progress]

2. Yeah: poor Judge told some friends he felt bad about the whole thing, the friends told reporters,

and then the poor Judge apparently thought a bit about Mens Rea and thought he'd better go public with a declaration he wasn't at all sorry

[bluebellbaby]

3. You know, People have missed the Point, he created these Memo's

After the torture began...

He was attempting to cover it up by putting these out...

There was a timeline posted here a couple days ago...showing this...

As for his crap that he was doing "a good faith analysis of the law"...is again crap!

[bluebellbaby]

4. Here's a link showing they wrote the memo's after it began

Which would mean he (Bybee) should be prosecuted.



http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/timeline-collection/torture-tape-timeline/

[Old Hank]

5. Wait a sec. 4 days ago he "regretted" the memo

"I've heard him express regret at the contents of the memo," said a fellow legal scholar and longtime friend"

Looks like that WAPO article was inaccurate, or Bybee has changed his mind.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042403888.html

[struggle4progress]

6. I think he's decided that admitting regret would put him in an untenable position

He floated a little trial balloon a few days back: Let's see how people react to the idea that I'll filled with regret. He didn't like the result, so he's trying another angle