Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy says Federal judge Jay Bybee should resign
Jay Bybee is notorious for being an author of “torture-memos”; documents that offered (questionable, at best) legal rationales for the Bush administration’s torture regime.
During his Senate confirmation hearings, he concealed his key role in the establishment of Bush and Cheney’s torture program from the Senate.
Leahy says he should “do the honorable thing and resign.”
In an earlier conversation I had with the Senator, he told me, “Of all the things the previous administration did, this was one of the worst.”
Simply resigning would not do justice to the grossly criminal behavior Bybee perpetrated himself and indirectly through others. Why isn’t Leahy moving to try and impeach him? Bybee should be sweating this out in the ICC at a MINIMUM.
pablito
12 Dec 09 at 8:19 pm
As a former Vermont resident, I am used to see Senator Leahy being all talk, and no action. He was in a strong position to do something about the Bush Administration’s criminal behavior, and he punyed, or sent a “strongly worded letter” but did nothing when the Rethugs ignored them. Now he is in a stronger position to do something, and it is still “Blah, Blah, Blah”. Like O-Bomb-A, a BIG disappointment.
Neil Murray
12 Dec 09 at 9:35 pm