Rather than pop the cork on the long-awaited Office of Professional Responsibility report on how the Justice Department came to legalize torture during its darkest days under George W. Bush, the department trying to let some of the fizz out slowly with well-placed leaks.
Over the weekend, Newsweek and the Washington Post reported that the final OPR report, whose release is imminent, will soften the conclusions of an earlier draft report. The final report will find that then-DOJ lawyers Jay Bybee and John Yoo exercised “poor judgment” but did not violate the standards of professional conduct.
