Any Indictment of Interrogation Policy Makers Would Face Several Hurdles
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
April 22, 2009… One thing could change that dynamic, however. The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility has been investigating the work of lawyers who signed off on the interrogation policy, and is believed to have obtained archived e-mail messages from the time when the memorandums were being drafted. If it turned out that the lawyers initially concluded that aspects of the proposed program would be illegal, then reversed that conclusion at the request of policy makers, then prosecutors could make a case that the officials knowingly broke the law…
It seems clear that the requestors of the OLC opinions and the people who rendered those opinions were "close," most evident in the Addington/Yoo Congressional Hearing. I presume they were talking back and forth. But to find this dialog in emails would be remarkable…
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