Wall Street Journal: "Vindicating John Yoo: Bush Lawyers Are Found To Have Acted Ethically, Unlike Their Accusers"

The Wall Street Journal reports that "five years of investigation, partisan accusations and unethical media leaks, the Justice Department's senior ethicist has concluded that Bush Administration lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee committed no professional misconduct. The issue now is whether the protégés of Attorney General Eric Holder who led this exercise at Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) should themselves be in the dock. That's our reading of the analysis by Associate Deputy Attorney General David Margolis, a career official who reviewed both the Bush-era legal memos on interrogating terror suspects and their review by the lawyers at OPR. Remarkably, his report is far more scathing about OPR than it is about Messrs. Yoo and Bybee, who he says made legal errors but did so in good faith, out of honest legal analysis, and in the ethical service of their clients in the executive branch at a time of war." To read the full article visit http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704757904575078182303405948.html?mod=googlenews_wsj. Tweet