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Group Seeks Disbarment|of Bush-Era Lawyers

WASHINGTON (CN) - A group of attorneys has filed ethics complaints against 12 Bush administration lawyers, seeking their disbarment for their efforts to justify torture.

The group, which calls itself Velvet Revolution, asked four states and the District of Columbia to disbar Alberto Gonzales, John Ashcroft, Michael Mukasey, David Addington, Jay Bybee, Douglas Feith, Michael Chertoff, John Yoo, Stephen Bradbury, Timothy Flanigan, Alice Fisher, and Michael Haynes. The Web link includes hundreds of pages of documentation.

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