Report: No Action Against Bush Era Attorneys For War On Terror Legal Advice

Lefty heads heard exploding throughout the internetz.

We’ve been waiting, and waiting, and waiting for news to come down from the Justice Department on what might become of John Yoo and Jay Bybee, the two Bush administration lawyers largely responsible for authoring the famous torture memos.Well, we finally have word. And it appears that the DOJ will largely let the pair go with little more than a slap on the wrist. Click here for the story from Newsweek, which broke the news; here for a followup from over the weekend from the Washington Post.

According to a forthcoming ethics report issued by the DOJ’s ethics-watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility, Yoo and Bybee will be wrist-slapped for exercising poor judgment but will not be referred to authorities for possible sanctions.

Ace makes the point I was just about to:

After spending 7+ years whining about the “abandonment of our values” and “lawlessness” of the Bush approach to national security, what exactly do the Democrats have to show for it in a legal sense? Nothing.

Exactly…they have nothing, nada, zilch to show for it legally.  Did they score points with their far-left base? Sure, but really they’re just barking up a tree with no cat in it.

Oh, and if you missed it a few weeks ago, John Yoo, one of the Bush attorneys who was in question on whether or not they committed illegal acts, absolutely destroyed Jon Stewart in this debate. It’s a must watch.

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