"Disbar the torture lawyers"?

I am not committing myself on the legal merits of the effort but here is the website of Velvet Revolution's campaign to "disbar the torture lawyers". It provides the disciplinary complaints they have filed against Bush administration lawyers who were policy architects or authored the notorious memos, and the key documents.

As a teacher of professional responsibility I will withhold judgment until I have studied them. I will acknowledge though that when on his first day in the Oval Office President Obama stood with the admirals who had pressed the issue and signed the executive order that interrogations must adhere to law - to the Army field manual - tears welled up as the weight of shame lifted.

And I voted with the majority on a yet-to-be-published editorial in the New Jersey Law Journal entitled Enabling Torture. It concludes:

"Law is powerful and lawyers who construe and implement law have extraordinary power. If that power is used to enable torture, criminal punishment and professional discipline may well be warranted."

p.s. - 12/1/2009 A coalition of NGO's has filed more state bar complaints against lawyers in the Bush administration. The documents can be found HERE