Based on Cheney's comment and the newly released OPR report, it is now apparent that Yoo, Bybee and Bradbury were the lawyerly equivalents of those U.S. intelligence analysts, who in the words of the British "Downing Street Memo" "fixed" the facts around Bush's desire to justify invading Iraq.
In justifying torture, these government lawyers had behaved less like diligent attorneys providing professional advice to honest clients and more like Mob consiglieres counseling crime bosses on how to evade the law.
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