Conyers, Nadler Question Attorney General on Prejudging Terror Probes

(Washington, D.C.) Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Subcommittee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) wrote Attorney General Michael Mukasey seeking information about the basis for Mr. Mukasey’s recent assertion that the administration officials who signed off on torture and surveillance policies believed that their actions were lawful. The members pointed out that this assertion was difficult to square with the record showing there were significant internal objections to the legal approval of these policies and was also premature in light of the numerous investigations underway looking at these very issues, including investigations by the department’s own internal watchdogs

The text of the letter to Mukasey is linked here.