Torture memos and pictures: From leaks to torrents (Westport News [CT], 05/01/09)
Columnist Emanuel Margolis: "Sadly, the shield against criminal prosecution of the dissemblers at the highest levels of government was forged by lawyers. These include ...Donald Rumsfeld's former counsel, William Haynes; and the authors of the Justice Department memoranda justifying torture: John Yoo, Steven Bradbury and Jay Bybee. Mr. Bybee was rewarded for his illegal conduct and disservice to his country by being nominated to fill a vacancy on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals."

Lawrence Wilkerson: Disbar The Bush Lawyers And Get A Special Prosecutor For The Rest (Huffington Post, 04/27/09)
Sam Stein: "Colin Powell's former chief of staff [Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson] called on Friday for a special prosecutor to be appointed and "armed to the teeth" to investigate the authorization of torture by Bush administration officials. He also stated that the lawyers involved in drafting the "torture memos" should be disbarred. ... "First, the lawyers," he wrote. "I feel that [Alberto] Gonzales, [David] Addington, [John] Yoo, [Jay] Bybee, [Defense Department General Counsel William J.] Haynes and [Douglas] Feith should be, at a minimum, disbarred... "

Impeach Jay Bybee (Harper's, 04/20/09)
Scott Horton: "Jay Bybee’s secret was that he had given the green light to torture, issuing a series of professionally incompetent memoranda for the purpose of inducing recalcitrant CIA agents to use techniques which have been universally understood to be torture since the Middle Ages. Bybee must have known that if these facts came out, his nomination would be over—just as his fellow torture-memo writer William J. Haynes II’s nomination to the Fourth Circuit was termed “dead on arrival.” ... the case of a judge, nothing could be more fundamental than conduct suggesting that he holds the rule of law in contempt. That is plainly the case with Jay Bybee."

Guest Observer: GOP Payback on Court Nominees Is Hard to Justify (Roll Call, 02/09/09)
Lengthy Op-Ed by Earthjustice's Glenn Sugameli detailing objective problems that justified failure to confirm all of Bush’s nominees. "Any fair evaluation of the Senate’s review of Bush’s judicial nominations can only argue for confirmation of qualified" Obama nominees.

The Torture Report  (New York Times, 12/17/08)
Editorial: "a bipartisan report by the Senate Armed Services Committee has made what amounts to a strong case for bringing criminal charges against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; his legal counsel, William J. Haynes; and potentially other top officials."

Move to torture started at the top  (News Tribune [WA] , 06/22/08)
Editorial: William "Haynes and Addington were among the five White House, Pentagon and Justice Department lawyers who dubbed themselves the “War Council” and were largely responsible for the legal framework that allowed the abuse of detainees. Their legal interpretations – many of which have since been rejected by courts – circumvented international laws and the military’s own code of justice. Military lawyers who objected to the new policies were ignored."

Abu Ghraib? Doesn't Ring a Bell. (Washington Post, 06/18/08)
Dana Milbank: "If ever there was a case that cried out for enhanced interrogation techniques, it was yesterday's Senate appearance by the Pentagon's former top lawyer. William "Jim" Haynes II, the man who blessed the use of dogs, hoods and nudity to pry information out of recalcitrant detainees, proved to be a model of evasion himself as he resisted all attempts at inquiry by the Armed Services Committee.... It was the most public case of memory loss since Alberto Gonzales, appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, forgot everything he ever knew about anything. And, like Gonzales, Haynes (who, denied a federal judgeship by the Senate, left the Pentagon in February for a job with Chevron) had good reason to plead temporary senility."

'Ends-obsessed' Bush administration has no moral bearings (Salt Lake Tribune [UT] , 05/18/08)
Robyn Blumner: William Haynes, the Pentagon's general counsel at the time, made it clear to Davis that acquittals would not be tolerated. Haynes was also a key figure in recommending abusive interrogation techniques, causing his nomination to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to be derailed by Democrats in Congress.

Surrendering the rule of law (Washington Times, 03/10/08)
Commentary by Nat Hentoff in the Washington Times discussing former 4th circuit nominee William J. Haynes' role with the Guantanamo Bay trials.

President Bush is creating artificial vacancies (Political Forum, 03/05/08)
Judging the Environment's Glenn Sugameli post explaining: "How the records of President George W. Bush's judicial selection process and his appellate nominees demonstrate that his nominees were chosen BECAUSE they would not be confirmed. "

Capital cases in kangaroo courts (Boston Globe, 02/25/08)
Boston Globe Editorial discussed former 4th circuit nominee William J. Haynes's role in the Guantanamo Trials.

Heckuva Job: The Unqualified, the Unscrupulous, and the Bush White House (Mother Jones, 10/22/07)
Mother Jones Magazine, by Joshua Kurlantzick, on William Myers and William Haynes

Fourth Circuit Vacancy Update (Juris Publici, 09/17/07)

Vacancies (Richmond Times-Dispatch [VA], 06/30/07)
Editorial on 4th circuit vacancies

A judicious beginning (St. Petersburg Times [FL] , 01/31/07)
St. Petersburg Times, Editorial, President faces new political reality by withdrawing Myers, Haynes, and Wallace.