Holder: DOJ Report on Yoo, Bybee Torture Memos to Be Released by Month’s End
OPS_admin | Nov 18, 2009 | Comments 0
A long-awaited Justice Department watchdog report that is said to be highly critical of the legal work on torture that three attorneys who worked at the agency's powerful Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) conducted for the Bush administration will be released at the end of the month, Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers Wednesday in testimony before a Senate committee.
“The report is completed. It's in its last stages of review now,” Holder said in response to a question by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, (D-Rhode Island), who queried the attorney general about the status of the report. “A career prosecutor has to review the report. We expect that process should be done by the end of the month. At that point, the report should be issued.”
Holder testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday about, anong other issues, his announcement last week that self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo would be prosecuted in federal court in New York.
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