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...according to a Wall Street Journal report published Friday, Goldsmith used his power as an assistant attorney general last June to withdraw the so-called “torture memo.” Goldsmith began drafting a new policy, released by the Office of Legal Counsel last week, reversing the earlier memo...
...Goldsmith declined to comment for this story...
Newsweek also reported late last month that Goldsmith voiced his concerns over the 2002 memo in a “tense meeting” with White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales last June. Gonzales, a 1982 HLS graduate, is Bush’s nominee for attorney general...
According to Newsweek, Goldsmith resigned from his post last summer “at least partly due to his discomfort about the [2002] memo...
After reading the Newsweek report, Bartholet wrote in an e-mail that “nothing [in the article] makes it clear that [Goldsmith] was not involved in providing the problematic legal advice...