A Senate committee chairman told the Justice Department on Friday to hunt for the missing e-mails of an attorney who provided legal justification for the Bush administration's harsh interrogation of terror suspects. Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy's demand came at a committee hearing where the ...

Two top Bush-era lawyers who authorized waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics exercised "poor judgment" but should not be disbarred, an internal Justice Department review showed. An initial investigation by the department's ethics watchdog, the Office of Professional Responsibility, found that Jay Bybee and John Yoo engaged in "professional misconduct," a finding that could have stripped them of their ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Bush administration lawyers who authorized harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects used poor judgment but will not face punishment, according to a U.S. Justice Department report released on Friday. The department's Office of Professional Responsibility had originally found that the high-ranking lawyers, John Yoo and Jay Bybee, had engaged in professional misconduct and also urged ...