More Torture

As a follow-up to my torture post below, take a look at this article by Andrew McCarthy from the National Review OnLine.

McCarthy points out that the Obama Justice Department is planning to refer the Bush era Justice Dept. officials to their respective State Bars for discliplinary proceedings for their memos regarding torture while simultaneously arguing that the standard those lawyers enumerated should be adopted by an appeals court in the Demjanjuk deportation case.

Here is one excerpt:

"On April 23 of this year, only a day after Holder — taking his lead from the president — promised to investigate Bybee, Yoo, and other government lawyers, the Justice Department filed a brief in a case called Demjanjuk v. Holder in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Ohio. The brief urges the federal courts to consider the same torture analysis over which Holder is targeting the Bush lawyers with such fanfare."

Read the whole thing; the hypocrisy is staggering!