Report on Bush Policy May Come In 'Weeks'-Probe Is Focused On Interrogation Program's Approval

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Source: Washington Post

Report on Bush Policy May Come In 'Weeks'

By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 18, 2009

A Justice Department report focusing on possible ethics violations by Bush administration lawyers who approved waterboarding of terrorism suspects is still "a matter of weeks" from release, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told lawmakers yesterday.

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Holder said that officials in the department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which investigates allegations of attorney misconduct, are reworking the 200-page draft report and incorporating comments from lawyers who have been the focus of the investigation.

The conclusions of the five-year-long probe are hotly anticipated because they could shed new light on the interplay between the Bush White House, the Justice Department and the CIA in formulating an interrogation policy that critics assert included torture.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/17/AR2009061701512.html

[NBachers]

1. Let's hope the Bush/Cheney sleeper agents

haven't been up to their nefarious knavery.

Clean those nests of traitors out now.

[No Elephants]

2. Ethics violations? How about violations of the UN Convention Against Torture? How about impeaching

Bybee? This is ridiculous.