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Advocacy Groups Seek Disbarment of Ex-Bush Administration Lawyers

Date: May 18, 2009

Author: Scott Shane

QUOTE: A coalition of left-wing advocacy groups filed legal ethics complaints on Monday against 12 former Bush administration lawyers, including three United States attorneys general, whom the groups accuse of helping to justify torture. The coalition, called Velvet Revolution, asked the bar associations in four states and the District of Columbia to disbar the lawyers...

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Key People:

• David S. Addington Esq.
• Timothy E. Flanigan Esq.
• Attorney General John Ashcroft
• Alberto R. Gonzales Esq.
• Steven "Steve" G. Bradbury Esq.
• William J. Haynes II, Esq.
• Judge Jay S. Bybee Esq.
• Judge Michael B. Mukasey Esq.
• Michael Chertoff
• Prof. John C. Yoo Esq.
• Douglas J. Feith Esq.
• Kevin B. Zeese Esq.
• Alice S. Fisher Esq.

Key Organizations:

• New York Times Company
• Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR)
• Velvet Revolution (VR)

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Abstract Principles
  • Control / Access / Permission
    • Choices/Tolerance/Flexibility
    • Principles / Guidelines / Rules / Policy
  • Information
    • Arguments / Debates / Demagoguery
      • Consistency/Hypocrisy
  • Responsibility

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • Human Rights
      • Torture

• Law & Justice
  • Legal Ethics
  • Non-US systems: International Law

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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