Bybee, Jay S.

Name: Jay S. Bybee

Born: October 27, 1953 in Oakland, California

Profession:

• Attorney
• Judge

GW Bush Administration Position:

• Assistant Attorney General
• Head of Office of Legal Counsel of Dept. of Justice

War crime charge(s):

• Complicity in the commission of a war crime – torture, ill-treatment of detainees.
• Signed the “torture memo” of Aug. 2002, giving a novel and narrow definition of torture.

Primary Association:

• Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  James R. Browning
  United States Courthouse
  95 Seventh Street
  San Francisco, CA 94103-1518
  415-355-8000

Excellent biography page on Bybee from The Center for Torture Accountability.

More Information:

• Bybee:  Personal Torture Laws – Your Tax Dollars at Work
• Bybee Judicial Confirmation Hearing Video
• Petition to Impeach Bybee
• An Even Worse Bybee Memo
• Bush Attorneys Who Wrote Terror Memo Face Backlash
• Hawaii Public Radio Report on Honolulu Bybee Demo
• WEBCAST: The Bybee Impeachment Question

  On Wednesday, May 13, 2009 the Alliance for Justice hosted a panel of scholars and legal experts at the National Press Club to discuss the options for holding Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jay S. Bybee accountable for his role in authoring memos that gave the Bush White House permission to illegally torture detainees.

• Video:  The Jay Bybee Problem

• 7-1-09 10 Most Wanted War Criminals

• 9-29-09 Profile: Jay S. Bybee

• 11-11-09 Bush torture ‘architect’ sits on court that will rule on another torture ‘architect’

• 12-09-09 Annotated Agression: Being Jay Bybee

• 1-29-10 Justice Dept. Clears Yoo, Bybee of Misconduct

• 1-30-10 Now We Impeach Jay Bybee

• 1-30-10 Things You Can Do to Impeach Bybee

• 5-18-10 On the AZ Immigration Law:  Might a Bybee Memo Thwart Holder?

• 7-15-10 Bush Aide Says Some CIA Methods Unauthorized

• 12-30-10 Hounding a Torture Judge: A Report on the Campaign to Impeach Jay S. Bybee

• 10-24-11 A big gift for Bybee

• 12-05-18 Criminal History: BCCI, the Bushes … and Mueller

Note:

“Physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death¹.”

Why should a suspected war criminal serve as a federal judge?

^{1_{From the “Bybee Torture Memo,” Aug. 1, 2002, paragraph 2.}}

From Officials of Torture, website of Sandra Koponen.