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Defend America on Monday, March 01, 2010 11:02:45 PM
Closing Arguments: Finally, an end to Justice Dept. investigation
By John Yoo
Inquirer Columnist
I've been under
investigation for more than five years for legal advice that I gave in
the immediate wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. This
month, the Justice Department's top career lawyer finally put an end to
the farce.
The Justice Department's internal ethics watchdog, known as the Office
of Professional Responsibility (OPR), has waged a witch-hunt against
Bush administration lawyers who developed policies to protect the
nation after Sept. 11. OPR lawyers - and the Obama administration -
disagreed with the policy choices made by President Bush on the
detention and interrogation of terrorists. But instead of arguing
against those policies honestly and openly, they decided to fight them
under the pretext of a cooked-up ethics investigation.
David Margolis, one of the Justice Department's most distinguished
civil servants, was able this month to stop the politicization of our
national security. He properly found that our work in the Office of
Legal Counsel on the lawfulness of interrogation methods did not
violate standards of professional conduct.
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