“We’ll Call These EITs”, 22x30, Oil on canvas, Sandra Koponen © 2015Left to Right: Steven Bradbury, William J. Haynes, Jay Bybee, Robert EatingerDEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEJay Bybee, DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel Assistant Attorney General Nov. 2001 - Mar. 2003As head of the OLC, Bybee oversaw and participated in the crafting of the legal justification for the torture program, including arguments that Geneva Convention protections did not apply to detainees. The most notorious of his memos, signed on August 1, 2002, approved of the use of waterboarding, walling, cramped confinement, insects placed in a confinement box, and more. Other memos Bybee crafted or helped craft provided the legal foundation for the U.S. to “render” detainees to countries where they faced a high risk of torture — and where many were, in fact, tortured.***https://www.aclu.org/infographic/infographic-torture-architects

“We’ll Call These EITs”, 22x30, Oil on canvas, Sandra Koponen © 2015

Left to Right: Steven Bradbury, William J. Haynes, Jay Bybee, Robert Eatinger

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Jay Bybee, DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel Assistant Attorney General Nov. 2001 - Mar. 2003

As head of the OLC, Bybee oversaw and participated in the crafting of the legal justification for the torture program, including arguments that Geneva Convention protections did not apply to detainees. The most notorious of his memos, signed on August 1, 2002, approved of the use of waterboarding, walling, cramped confinement, insects placed in a confinement box, and more. Other memos Bybee crafted or helped craft provided the legal foundation for the U.S. to “render” detainees to countries where they faced a high risk of torture — and where many were, in fact, tortured.*

**https://www.aclu.org/infographic/infographic-torture-architects