A selective release of torture memos can hardly be called transparent. Nice pass on that one Bob. Where's the follow up? Must have been lost in editing. Shame.

Bet they do have to, even in an Obama administration, if a credible suit is brought for financial compensation on either of those issues! Like Mr. Wollman said, "Don't blame the lawyers..."

Garrett Wollman said:

"that they have an obligation to make the best legal defense they can of the laws and prior actions of the United States, even if they, or their administration, believes those laws or actions to be erroneous as a matter of policy. Don't blame the lawyers for doing their job. "

Do DOJ lawyers also have an obligation to make a "legal" defense of slavery and/or denying women the right to vote?

I think your interviewee glossed over a few fairly important points in this story. Most significantly, there is a principle that the government's lawyers owe a duty, not only to the law, but to the legal system, and that implies that (a) they should not reverse the government's previously articulated position without a serious explanation of why they had changed their argument, and (b) that they have an obligation to make the best legal defense they can of the laws and prior actions of the United States, even if they, or their administration, believes those laws or actions to be erroneous as a matter of policy. Don't blame the lawyers for doing their job.

(I would, on the other hand, raise a few red flags over how few senior Executive Branch posts are being filled with people who are not lawyers, but that's a comment for another story and another day.)

An "F", 100 days after, likely, the most nefarious administration in U.S. history? An "F", really?

Claptrap...