Bybee Memo was responding to the president's reported request for a legal opinion on the U N Convention Against Torture and 18 US C section 2340 and the interrogation of al Qaeda operatives.
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12 Facts About Bybee Memo
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Bybee Memo discusses the Convention Against Torture and concludes that the convention makes a distinction between torture and "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment", and that therefore torture is "only the most extreme acts", which the memo concludes, together with the ratifying reservations of the United States, confirms the interpretation of torture found in part one.
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Jay Bybee addressed a memorandum to John A Rizzo, then the acting General Counsel of the CIA, dated August 1,2002, in response to the CIA's reported request for legal opinion on 18 US C § 2340 as applied to the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah.
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Bybee Memo wrote a memo to the DoD on March 14,2003, concluding that "federal laws against torture, assault and maiming would not apply to the overseas interrogation of terror suspects".
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Bybee Memo was at work on the problem when the scandal and the leak of the memo precipitated the final decision.
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Bybee Memo has a sworn duty to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and to execute the laws of the United States faithfully, in accordance with the Constitution.
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Bybee Memo was investigated by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility.
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Bybee Memo had earlier advised agencies not to follow the three August 2002 memos.
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Bybee Memo called the memo "deeply flawed" and "sloppily reasoned".
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Friends of Bybee have indicated that the jurist privately regrets the controversial memo's inadequacies and growing notoriety.
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Four days later, Senator Leahy sent a letter to Judge Jay S Bybee inviting him to testify before the Judiciary Committee in connection with his role in writing legal memoranda authorizing the use of harsh interrogation techniques while serving as the Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel.
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Bybee Memo is a moderate conservative, very bright and always attentive to the record and the applicable law.
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