A small knot of protesters staked out a patch of sidewalk in front of Portland's Pioneer Courthouse this morning to protest the appearance of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jay Bybee, who is hearing cases there this week.
Bybee was one of two Bush administration lawyers behind memos that ultimately authorized the use of a wide array of painful mental and physical measures -- including waterboarding -- to extract information from suspected terrorists. John C. Yoo, University of California at Berkeley professor, authored the memos... Bryan Denson/The Oregonian View full size
