Not Completely Under the Rug

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) has forwarded materials on the writing of the torture memos to state bars where John Yoo and Jay Bybee are licensed, calling on the bar association to consider possible disciplinary action.

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The torture memo report produced by the Justice Department's ethics office concluded that Yoo, now a professor at Berkeley, and Bybee, now federal judge on the ninth circuit, committed professional misconduct in their drafting of the memos that authorized report.

But top DOJ official David Margolis overruled that finding and barred the ethics office from referring the batter to state bars in Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, where Bybee and Yoo are members, respectively.

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[ Nadler:] "This should never have happened, and I will continue working to ensure that the appropriate corrective steps are taken so that it does not happen in the future.

At the same time, the relevant officials in the states where attorneys Yoo and Bybee are licensed to practice law have authority to determine whether further investigation or disciplinary action is warranted. These states do not need a referral from the Department of Justice in order to interpret and enforce the standards of professional responsibility and ethics against their members."

  TPM

That won't happen, but as someone in the comments of this TPM post mentioned, what will happen is that the "professional misconduct", including a description, will go on their respective records. And that's not nothing.

In the meantime, any alumni of Berkeley out there want to protest the hiring of that dufus Yoo? Perhaps a petition by alumni and students to dismiss? What's with Berkeley? Apparently not the same place it used to be. They can still work up some passion but I can't quite figure out about what.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.