| A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday will present lawmakers with their first opportunity to begin tearing down the indefinite detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), but two of the nation's leading civil rights groups are warning that Republicans have taken an unprecedented and even "chilling" step by inviting the testimony of someone who simply does not belong. Steven G. Bradbury, who lead the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) for years during the Bush administration, will appear before the committee Wednesday at the request of its Republican members. He's best known as one of three architects of legal opinions that authorized the Bush administration's torture program, which President Barack Obama has since claimed to be forever closed. |
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