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ACLU Presses Obama to Release OLC Memos — and Other Evidence of Potentially Illegal Conduct

By | 01.28.09 | 1:38 pm

Buoyed by President Obama’s executive orders and presidential memoranda renouncing excessive government secrecy last week, advocates are pushing the new administration hard to live up to those promises.

The ACLU today sent a letter to David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, More…

Conyers and Nadler Press Mukasey on Statements Denying Criminal Liability of Bush Officials

By | 12.05.08 | 9:17 am

I’m glad to see that somebody isn’t just taking at face value Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s recent statements that Bush administration officials who approved the use of torture shouldn’t be prosecuted and needn’t be pardoned  because they all reasonably believed their actions were lawful.

On Thursday, House Judiciary Committee More…