JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/NOMINATIONS/TRANSPORTATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A former government official criticized for being the principal author of the legal justifications for ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ was narrowly confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday as the top lawyer for the U.S. Department of Transportation in the Trump administration.
Steven Bradbury, a Washington lawyer at Dechert LLP who was a senior Department of Justice lawyer under President George W. Bush, was criticized by both Republican and Democratic senators before being confirmed by a 50-47 vote…
Bradbury, who was nominated to the transportation post by President Donald Trump, defended his work in June before a Senate panel. He said the ‘questions we addressed raised difficult issues about which reasonable people could disagree’ on interrogation techniques and the memos represented his ‘best judgment of what the law required.’
On Tuesday, Bradbury could not immediately be reached for comment.”
-David Shepardson, “Senate approves Trump administration job for author of ‘torture’ memos,” Reuters, Nov. 14, 2017 02:42pm