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 certain legal memos from the Office of Legal Counsel.
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