Serious lapses of judgment

The NYT carries a little preview of the Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility's forthcoming report on the circumstances surrounding the production of the so-called "torture memos":

Among the questions it is expected to consider is whether the memos reflected the lawyers' independent judgments of the limits of the federal anti-torture statute or were skewed deliberately to justify what the C.I.A. proposed.

Which in turn presents a number of larger questions that lead well beyond the authors of the memos.

And if Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jay Bybee is disbarred, that will surely provide grist for Sen. Feingold's impeachment mill.