Federal Judge (Jay Bybee) Targeted in San Francisco

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Source: News Blaze

Protesters calling for the impeachment, disbarment, and prosecution of a federal judge they accuse of aiding illegal torture will rally at 12 noon this Tuesday, July 14 at the James R. Browning Courthouse, 95 Seventh St. (at Mission).

Organized by the World Can't Wait, the activists will focus on Judge Jay Bybee, whose lifetime appointment to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by Bush they claim was a presidential reward for Bybee's role in legalizing torture.

As head of Bush's Office of Legal Counsel, in 2002 Bybee wrote a key legal memo justifying fourteen (14) specific torture techniques including waterboarding, walling, and sleep deprivation.

World Can't Wait's Stephanie Tang calls Bybee as "a member in good standing of the Torture Team, along with Yoo, Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush. Without a green light for torture from the lawyers, the Bush regime could not have organized the horrible torture apparatus that is still operating today - and called it legal."

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