Judge Jay S. Bybee, of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, was head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel when he described the intensity of pain that could legally be inflicted.

Jay S. Bybee, now a judge on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, is described as a gentle soul. So how could he sign his name to a legal document that seemed to sanction the use of torture?

Jay Bybee is currently sitting on the 9 th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. As assistant attorney general in President George W. Bush’s Justice Department, he was responsible for ...

Gen. David Margolis’ report is far from a vindication for John C. Yoo and Jay S. Bybee’s shamefully narrow interpretations of laws against torture and extravagant views about presidential power.

In closed-door testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on May 26, the former official, Judge Jay S. Bybee, said the Central Intelligence Agency never sought approval for some practices ...

Added Randall Guynn, who roomed with Bybee at Brigham Young University: "Jay would be the sort of lawyer who would say, 'Look, I'll give you the legal advice, but it's up to someone else to make ...

Jay S. Bybee, who headed the department's Office of Legal Counsel, told investigators in May that he never approved some interrogation techniques that detainees say were used against them ...

LAS VEGAS — One Saturday night last May, Jay Bybee hosted dinner for 35 at a Las Vegas restaurant. The people seated around him had all served as his law clerks in the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

the PBS report that calls the "torture memo" the "Bybee memo"; or Bruce Ackerman's article for Slate entitled Impeach Judge Jay Bybee. Seems like plenty of people are like Toobin and haven't ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) yesterday invited federal Judge Jay S. Bybee to testify about his role in preparing two Justice Department memos that allowed ...

In the months before taking office, President Obama deflected frequent calls for prosecuting John Yoo and Jay Bybee ... and Bybee? Obama Admin Abandons Accountability The Atlantic's Andrew ...

The U.S. Justice Department released four memos on Thursday detailing brutal CIA interrogation techniques. Former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee signed the first of four memos on behalf of ...