President Obama may be running the country, but recently, players from the Bush administration seem to be getting all the press. From revelations regarding Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Biblical briefings to Cheney's role in enhanced interrogation techniques, here's a sampling of what we've learned about them since they left the White House.
How to Torture the Bush Six
Paul Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Torture-memo authors John Yoo and Jay Bybee will likely not be prosecuted but law professor Paul Campos says the legal profession can punish the men who sanctioned war crimes.
Justice Department Probe Slams Bush Lawyers Over Torture Ethics
Scott Horton is a law professor and writer on legal and national security affairs for Harper's Magazine and The American Lawyer, among other publications.
A new Justice Department report about Bush lawyers who legitimized torture techniques is "devastating," a source tells The Daily Beast's Scott Horton, and contrary to The New York Times, criminal charges aren't off the table-Attorney General Eric Holder just has to make up his mind.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
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