"That memo led journalist Stuart Taylor to write, in a 2008 article for the "National Journal", that Haynes "is the only former [Bush administration] official whose paper trail also shows that he blocked a request to use waterboarding and two other harsh methods that administration lawyers had advised were legal..." Brookings Institution fellow Benjamin Wittes went further in the pages of the "New Republic", claiming Haynes's memo "the reason that the military, unlike the CIA, never waterboarded anybody."