A collection of organizations, most of them left-leaning, filed complaints May 18 with five state bar associations, accusing former Attorneys General John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales and Michael Mukasey and nine other former Bush administration lawyers of violating professional standards by sanctioning the use of torture on terrorism suspects.
The complaints, filed with state bars in Texas, New York, California, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, seek disciplinary action and disbarment. The others named in the complaints include former Office of Legal Counsel lawyers John Yoo, Jay Bybee and Stephen Bradbury; Michael Chertoff, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; Alice Fisher, also a former head of the Criminal Division; former Defense Department lawyers William Haynes II and Douglas Feith; former deputy White House counsel Timothy Flanigan; and David Addington, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
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