The fundamental question here is not whether these were shoddy legal memos. They were shoddy legal memos. Everybody knows that.... It failed to cite significant case law; it twisted the plain meaning of statutes. The legal memoranda were designed to achieve an end.
Leahy criticized the quality and intent of legal memos from the Office of Legal Counsel.
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