Another New Month, and Still No OPR Report

By: emptywheel Monday January 4, 2010 5:39 am

It has been almost 50 days since Eric Holder promised the OPR report would be released within days. And yet it still hasn’t been released, even though Padilla’s lawyers have a deadline coming up to submit a filing that the OPR report might impact.

They Picked a Bad Week to Stop Sniffing Glue

By: emptywheel Saturday March 7, 2009 5:23 am

The Judge deciding whether or not to dismiss the Jose Padilla lawsuit against John Yoo, having read the memos released earlier this week, doesn’t seem inclined to dismiss the suit.

John Yoo complains, “I am trapped on a plane in all of this bad weather”

By: emptywheel Saturday January 5, 2008 11:10 am

Poor John Yoo. Apparently now he’s trapped. Or, as his lawyer said, faced with “nothing more than a political rant disguised as a lawsuit.” I know you’re all crying for him.

I’m a little bit late to posting about the law suit, on the behalf of Jose Padilla and his mother, against the guy who rationalized his torture, John Yoo.

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