Jul 2, 2010
DOJ Fights to Keep Information Secret in ‘Torture Memo’ Report
Responding to a lawsuit over a Justice Department report on the lawyers who wrote the so-called torture memos, the government said last week that blacked-out passages in the report should remain confidential in the interest of national security and the privacy of government lawyers. In January, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the DOJ to obtain a copy of the report, which cleared Justice Department attorneys John Yoo and Jay Bybee of any ethical wrongdoing.