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...some critics prefer to call torture. Johnsen, who headed the office on an interim basis during the Clinton Administration, did not mince words with respect to those memos and the Administration that generated them. Rather, she spoke openly and critically about what she saw as the excesses of the Bush lawyers. Writing in a blog post three years ago, for example, she decried the "shockingly flawed content" of one of the memos, writing that it encouraged "horrific acts" and lamenting, "Where is the outrage, the public outcry?!" (See the top contenders to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens...
Even then, her renomination became a referendum on the past. At one point, Senator Orrin Hatch took the last minutes of his testimony against Johnsen to praise the authors of the Bush-era memos, John Yoo and Jay Bybee, calling them "two brilliant guys" and "very excellent people." Conversely, Democrats split their time between urging support for Johnsen and condemning the Bush lawyers who came before her. The vote to again send her nomination for a floor vote was on strict party lines. (See four myths about Supreme Court nominees...
Some liberals who hoped Johnsen would be Obama's tonic to the office under Bush are bitterly disappointed by her withdrawal, and some accuse the White House of not backing their own candidate. But Lee Casey, a Washington attorney who was an attorney adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel in 1992 and 1993, says her nomination may have been abandoned because of a bigger confirmation fight that is now taking shape: the one for Justice Stevens' seat. "My guess is that it became a question of where do we want to spend the political capital," he says...
...Brotherhood has been officially banned since 1954 but partially tolerated nonetheless during various periods ever since. It runs a network of charities across the country and operates offices in various towns and cities. When the regime let its guard down, under pressure from the Bush Administration, for the first round of parliamentary elections in 2005, Brotherhood members running as independents captured 88 of 454 seats, making them the largest opposition bloc in parliament...
...criticism and attacks on Israel. It was agreed at Camp David in 1995 that Israel, in a final peace deal, would exchange some land in Israel proper for the largest Jewish settlements in the West Bank; this was agreed to by Palestinian negotiators several times under both Clinton and Bush...