Daniel Levin served as Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel of the Justice Department
from July 2004 until February 2005. On August 6, 2004, he sent a letter to the Central Intelligence Agency
advising the CIA that it was lawful to use waterboarding as an interrogation technique under the federal
torture statute, 28 U.S.C. 2340-2340A.
Levin also signed an opinion on December 30, 2004, updating OLC's interpretation of the torture statute
and replacing an unclassified August 2002 opinion by Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee that had
previously been withdrawn by OLC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_LevinFrom October 2003 to July 2004,Jack Goldsmith served under Attorney General John Ashcroft and Deputy
Attorney General James Comey<4> as an United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal
Counsel in the Department of Justice, and wrote a book about his experiences there called "The Terror Presidency".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_GoldsmithJohn Yoo worked from 2001 to 2003 in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, producing
the torture memo and other insane legal opinions during that time. Yoo was born in South Korea, and
for some completely unfathomable reason is still reported as a member of the Pennsylvania State Bar.
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo