Justice Dept. Report Advises Pursuing C.I.A. Abuse Cases

NYTimes ^ | 8/24/2009 | DAVID JOHNSTON

[james500]

The Justice Department’s ethics office has recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, potentially exposing Central Intelligence Agency employees and contractors to prosecution for brutal treatment of terrorism suspects, according to a person officially briefed on the matter.

The recommendation by the Office of Professional Responsibility, presented to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in recent weeks, comes as the Justice Department is about to disclose on Monday voluminous details on prisoner abuse that were gathered in 2004 by the C.I.A.’s inspector general but have never been released.

When the C.I.A. first referred its inspector general’s findings to prosecutors, they decided that none of the cases merited prosecution. But Mr. Holder’s associates say that when he took office and saw the allegations, which included the deaths of people in custody and other cases of physical or mental torment, he began to reconsider.

With the release of the details on Monday and the formal advice that at least some cases be reopened, it now seems all but certain that the appointment of a prosecutor or other concrete steps will follow, posing significant new problems for the C.I.A. It is politically awkward, too, for Mr. Holder because President Obama has said that he would rather move forward than get bogged down in the issue at the expense of his own agenda.

[Red Steel]

The Slimes thinks pushing this will be a winner for Obama. LoL!

[Carling]

This administration appears to be inciting divisiveness on a daily basis.

[Frantzie]

Maybe the CIA will get smart and drop the BC in someone’s lap. I doubt it because the CIA is filled with libs.

CIA = US Postal Service
Blackwater = UPS and Fed Ex

[FlingWingFlyer]

The Marxist Obama administration is out to destroy America and protect its Islamofascist terrorist friends. This is proof of that.

[Red Steel]

Ummmmmm CIA, have anything on Obama’s hidden past you guys should consider about releasing it into the public domain.

[PhiKapMom]

This is not going to go over well. Drop charges against the new Black Panthers and investigate the CIA for tactics used against terrorist. Slimey bunch of anti-Americans in this Administration.

[mojito]

The Slimes has sources inside the Justice Dept. (Holder himself?) and they are working together to push this story.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Red Steel]

The Slimes has sources inside the Justice Dept. (Holder himself?) and they are working together to push this story.

Yes, I would think so.

[samadams2000]

They say keeping list is dangerous, but man I hope those in the CIA are keeping a list of those that are attempting to bring it down.

[GodGunsGuts]

I wonder how much the timing of this has to do with trying to change the subject away from the debate over health care, etc?

[JerseyJohn61]

It’s the Church Commission and Clinton’s Justice Dept.
allover again...

Does anyone else hear the bomb ticking??...

[HollyB]

Why doesn’t this surprise me? (I ask this as I shake my head.) Seems to be some confusion these days with who needs to be pursued and who needs to be supported.

[ari-freedom]

how about pursuing abuse by terrorists against americans?

[Red Steel]

Obama’s poll numbers are tanking and Holder thinks “prosecuting” the CIA is going to help stave off this disaster called the Obama administration.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The Cheneys will come out with guns blazing on this, bank on it.

[tet68]

It is politically awkward, too, for Mr. Holder because President Obama has said that he would rather move forward than get bogged down in the issue at the expense of his own agenda.

Hogwash, Holder wouldn’t move on this without Obama’s go ahead. This is just a cut out to give Obama wiggle room
if it turns south and starts coming apart.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“The Cheneys will come out with guns blazing on this, bank on it.”

I sure hope so.

[james500]

“This administration appears to be inciting divisiveness on a daily basis. “

Very divisive but that’s how it’s done in the third world. Incoming regimes don’t just take power, they throw the old guys and their families in prison.

[Candor7]

The Justice Department’s ethics office has recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, potentially exposing Central Intelligence Agency employees and contractors to prosecution for brutal treatment of terrorism suspects, according to a person officially briefed on the matter>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This is all about making sure the CIA does not leak documents which indicate where Resident Obama was born, his school records etc.

Obama will have this hanging over the heads of CIA officials, who are getting the message : " No leaks, or else!"

Obama will not allow the leaks from the CIA that plagued the Bush Administration.

[ETL]

The Bush-Cheney "investigators" need to be investigated! (ties to revolutionary communist orgs)
various sources | July 13, 2009 | info compiled by me

Posted on Monday, July 13, 2009 8:37:28 AM ET by ETL

House Judiciary Committee chairman/chief Bush administration "torture" investigator, democrat John Conyers Jr of Michigan is an endorser of the Revolutionary Communist Party movement/organization, "World Can't Wait"...

Former Abu Ghraib Brigadier General, Janis Karpinski, is also an endorser of the revolutionary communist org...

Details here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2291371/posts

[Joe Boucher]

Nooo,
What it will do is encourage the security apparatus to look for ways to take down garbage like pelousy and obammy.

[dannyboy72a]

That’s right. The attorney general goes after those trying to protect American rights from Foreign Nationals, radical terrorists, or their ilk. Oh, don’t PRETEND to use a drill or a gun. Oh no. That’s outrageous, must be prosecuted.

But two black panthers carrying nightsticks in front of a voting station intimidating voters caught on camera breaking the law? Absolutely not.

By deduction, perhaps we should only go after those at CIA who tortured leftists. Anyone who tortured a conservative - off the hook. Memo to CIA. Cover your back. Make sure you put “I (Heart) Bush” stickers on all the terrorists before you pretend to torture them.

BTW, If Putin, Castro, Chavez or Ortega want to smuggle in a nuke, just ask them nicely to set it off in Texas or South Carolina and move along.

End Memo...

[101voodoo]

BINGO!!!

[17th Miss Regt]

If it is filled with libs and they won’t fight back (i.e. drop the BC in someone’s lap), then there is no help for them. Battered spouse syndrome is in full play.

[ETL]

Eric Holder's role in the pardons of BLA (Black Liberation Army) comrades/Weather Underground members, Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans (1983 Brinks Truck robbery and triple murder):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165052/posts

Eric Holder, Bill Clinton, Wright's 'Black Liberation' "church", and the pardons of 16 members of the Puerto Rican Marxist terrorist group FALN:(Wright's Marxist BLT 'church' (Obama's 'church' for 20+ years) advocated for FALN terrorists)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165024/posts
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"Fraunces Tavern is a restaurant and museum in lower Manhattan, New York City. It was built on the site of a former building which played a significant role in pre-Revolutionary activities, and in which, on 4 December 1783, General George Washington bade farewell to his officers at the end of the Revolution, before returning to his home, Mount Vernon."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunces_Tavern
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"During the 1970s and 1980s, FALN members set off at least 138 bombs in five major U.S. Cities. Six Americans were killed in those attacks. One of those bombings, in January 1975, was at the historic Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan while patrons were at lunch. The explosion killed four and injured more than 50."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/bill_hillary_and_the_faln.html
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"Between 1974 and 1985 the FALN (Puerto Rican Armed Forces of National Liberation) organized 120 terrorist bombings in the United States. Many Americans were killed in those bombings, and many more were crippled. In 1983, another Puerto Rican terrorist group known as the Macheteros, attacked and robbed a Wells Fargo armored car in Connecticut. The Macheteros intended to use the money to finance a terrorist campaign against the United States. Working under the cover of Puerto Rican nationalism and claiming to act on behalf of the 'oppressed people of Puerto Rico,' the FALN and the Macheteros are nothing but Communist revolutionaries. Both groups were organized by Fidel Castro's secret police. The ultimate goal of the FALN and the Macheteros is the creation of an independent Marxist-Leninist dictatorship on the island of Puerto Rico."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19760