The NYT reports that former OLC head Jay Bybee, who is now a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, released a statement in response to media reports that he regretted his role in drafting and approving some of the infamous “torture memos”:
Judge Bybee said he was issuing a statement following reports that he had regrets over his role in the memorandums, including an article in The Washington Post on Saturday to that effect. Given the widespread criticism of the memorandums, he said he would have done some things differently, like clarifying and sharpening the analysis of some of his answers to help the public better understand the basis for his conclusions.
But he said: