{"id":649614,"date":"2010-01-31T23:56:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T04:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21165"},"modified":"2010-01-31T23:56:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T04:56:26","slug":"report-no-sanctions-for-lawyers-who-ok%e2%80%99d-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/649614","title":{"rendered":"Report: No sanctions for Lawyers who OK\u2019d Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is anyone surprised at this report?\u00a0 Is anyone not disgusted?<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100131\/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe\/us_torture_memos;_ylt=Av2Ym5VaAWVrE8JnBMs8qYIuQE4F;_ylu=X3oDMTM1YTYxYTYyBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMTMxL3VzX3RvcnR1cmVfbWVtb3MEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM3BHBvcwM3BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDcmVwb3J0b\">Yahoo News<\/a>:<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 10px solid white;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.yimg.com\/a\/p\/ap\/20100131\/capt.3c49a1d6adcc4b6398a0919d94c22dad.torture_memos_ny108.jpg?resize=151%2C219\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"151\" height=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bush administration lawyers who drafted legal theories that led to waterboarding and other harsh treatment of terrorism suspects showed poor judgment but won&#8217;t face sanctions for professional misconduct, according to a published report.A forthcoming government ethics report initially concluded the two key authors of the so-called torture memos, Jay Bybee and John Yoo, who were officials in the Justice Department&#8217;s Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush administration, had violated their professional obligations as lawyers when they crafted the memos that allowed the use of harsh interrogation tactics.<\/p>\n<p>But a senior Justice Department official, David Margolis, later softened the department&#8217;s finding to say the authors simply showed poor judgment, Newsweek reported.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100131\/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe\/us_torture_memos;_ylt=Av2Ym5VaAWVrE8JnBMs8qYIuQE4F;_ylu=X3oDMTM1YTYxYTYyBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMTMxL3VzX3RvcnR1cmVfbWVtb3MEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM3BHBvcwM3BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDcmVwb3J0b\">Yahoo News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is anyone surprised at this report?\u00a0 Is anyone not disgusted? From Yahoo News: Bush administration lawyers who drafted legal theories that led to waterboarding and other harsh treatment of terrorism suspects showed poor judgment but won&#8217;t face sanctions for professional misconduct, according to a published report.A forthcoming government ethics report initially concluded the two key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2IZE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}