...Based on some of the testimony from yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties by Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Chief of Staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Daniel Levin, who headed the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the Department of Justice, it appears that Bush Administration lawyers played a significant role in crafting, justifying, and implementing interrogation techniques that may be illegal.  In so doing, these lawyers failed in meeting their obligation to the rule of law...