Liz Cheney seems to be lashing out in an attempt to distract from the real issue of the Department of Justice investigation.

Human Rights First will be blogging on the OPR Report hearing today.

Yoo was under “significant pressure” to justify torture in the OPR Report

Dick Cheney may like to call those interrogations “enhanced,” but in everyday parlance they’re what the DOJ is implicitly acknowledging: torture.

It’s time for the Justice Department to release the OPR report. It’s been due for too long now.

The involvement of Margolis in defanging the OPR report is perhaps not an incidental fact.
The role of Margolis, and the man himself, deserve a closer look. It does not take long to see that 40+ year DoJ veteran David Margolis has some skeletons in his closet, and that his track record is not unblemished.

Happy Monday and welcome to the Dog’s letter writing campaign for torture accountability under the law. This is an effort to keep the issue of accountability for the apparent state sponsored torture program of the Bush administration alive. It works as follows; every Monday the Dog writes a letter to the leaders who can influence the decision to move from our half-hearted and weak-kneed investigation of a “few bad apples” to a full scale and independent investigation of all the people who conspired to circumvent our torture statutes and who carried out actual acts of torture. You get involved by either using this letter as the starting point for your own, or by cutting and pasting the letter over your signature. The Dog even provides the e-mail links, you just provide a little bit of time.

John Gibeaut details at the ABA Journal the ‘dismal history of intentional and inadvertent violations’ by federal prosecutors and the complaints to DoJ OPR made by Judge Mark L. Wolf, Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, that yielded woefully inadequate DoJ OPR investigations and slap-on-the-wrist ‘punishments.’

Hunton & Williams LLP is a large D.C. lawfirm that prides itself on “excellence and hard work,” its diversity programs and its commitment to providing pro bono legal services. Hunton claims that this corporate atmosphere provides its employees the “opportunity to work alongside creative and gifted people on interesting and real projects that matter.” This claim, however, is incongruous with the employment of one of its more infamous partners: Kyle D. Sampson. In this e-mail, I asked Hunton’s D.C. Managing Partner, Andrea Bear Field, for a response to my allegations that Mr. Sampson is not fit to practice law.