News release: “House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. D-Mich.) today released the transcript of the Committees interview of Judge Jay Bybee, former assistant attorney general for the Justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel during the administration of President George W. Bush and author of two of the Bush administrations most infamous “torture memos.” “This testimony reveals that many brutal techniques reportedly used in CIA interrogations were not authorized by the Justice Department the author of these legal memos has now admitted this on the record,” Conyers said. “These statements are highly relevant to the pending criminal investigation of detainee abuse and I have provided the Committees interview to the Justice Department and directed my staff to cooperate with any further requests for information.”
Jay Bybee Interview Transcript and Related Materials
- Bybee Interview Transcript
- Bybee Interview Documents 1-4
- Bybee Interview Document 5
- Bybee Interview Documents 6-16
- Bybee Interview Documents 17-33
- “Mr. Obama has said multiple times that ‘we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards,’ as though the two were incompatible. They are not. The nation cannot move forward in any meaningful way without coming to terms, legally and morally, with the abhorrent acts that were authorized, given a false patina of legality, and committed by American men and women from the highest levels of government on down.” The New York Times Editorial Board calls for a criminal investigation into the Bush administration’s architects of torture.
