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Transcript of May 26, 2010 House Judiciary Committee Interview of Former Assistant

Attorney General Jay Bybee

The remainder of this document consists of the transcript of the May 26, 2010 House

Judiciary Committee interview of Former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of LegalCounsel Jay Bybee, along with a July 1, 2010 letter from Bybees counsel providing additional

information about his testimony concerning John Yoo and enclosing a proposed errata sheet.

Under Rule III(e) of the Judiciary Committee rules, transcripts of Committee proceedings are

published in verbatim form, with additional proposed changes to a transcript other than errors

in the transcription to be appended to the record. Accordingly, each proposed change beyond

transcription errors is denoted in the transcript as a Bybee proposed change, and both the

original version and the proposed change can be reviewed by the reader. In addition, at the

request of the Department of Justice, the name of an Office of Legal Counsel attorney who

worked on the interrogation memoranda has been redacted. The documents utilized as exhibits at

the Bybee interview are separately available on the Committee Web site.

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Errata Sheet

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having any specific conversations>

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