Pilloried by the left for the "torture" memos they wrote while at the Department of Justice, it appears that the remaining grownup ( career lawyer David Margolis) at DoJ has cleared Bush appointee Judge Jay Bybee and Professor John Yoo of wrongdoing, per Michael Isikoff wiritng for Newsweek An upcoming Justice Department report from its ethics-watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), clears the Bush administration lawyers who authored the "torture" memos of professional-misconduct allegations.While the probe is sharply critical of the legal reasoning used to justify waterboarding and other "enhanced" interrogation techniques, NEWSWEEK has learned that a senior Justice official who did the final review of the report softened an earlier OPR finding. Previously, the report concluded that two key authors-Jay Bybee, now a federal appellate court judge, and John Yoo, now a law professor-violated their professional obligations as...(Read Full Post)