Posted on 08/24/2009 4:05:33 PM PDT by kellynla
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder named federal prosecutor John Durham to investigate alleged CIA mistreatment of terrorism suspects overseas during the Bush administration.
Mr. Durham is currently investigating the destruction of videotapes made of certain CIA interrogations of detainees. He will now also be tasked with probing whether CIA officers or contractors broke any laws with their use of harsh tactics.
The decision comes on the day the Justice Department released a long-awaited report from the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general, as well as several hundred pages of additional documents on the CIA's interrogation program.
The report says one interrogator threatened to kill the children of one Sept. 11 suspect, while others used a "pressure point" tactic that temporarily choked off the flow of blood to the brain before the detainee was revived.
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And then I would plead the "5th".
Semper Fi,
Kelly
The messiah on that very same subject,
” I also have a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards. I don’t want them to suddenly feel like they’ve got to spend all their time looking over their shoulders and lawyering...The AG has assured me that these individuals will not be prosecuted and that the government will stand by them.”
This is a major tactical error on Obama's part - and it IS Obama who made this call, not Holder. He just created an agency full of enemies.
This is bad news for the CIA , bad news for the military, bad news for our country and hopefully (HOPE AND CHANGE) this will be Really Bad News for the Obama administration that is stupid enough to do this
I heard Krauthammer on Fox tonight say that they will regret doing this since the American people are focused on healthcare and most Americans believe we did what we had to in order to be safe.
Unbelievable - these interrogators should get parades, not hearings.
“Obama who made this call”
Of couse he did, Holder doesn’t wipe his ass until Hussein tells him to.
They need a distraction...
Good call by Charles. Hope he is right on this one.
I think so
*UCK OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION.
THIS ASSHOLE IS GONNA GET PEOPLE UNNECESSARILY KILLED!
And no country is going to cooperate with us in the future and people are going to get out of the CIA tomorrow!!!
Incredibly stupid move. They can try and put up a distraction from the shameful health care sham but the people are engaged right now. I see this just further contributing to the overall perception that Obama is just a turd in a punch bowl and an anti-American one at that. And the more he tanks the more difficult it is to take his cow dung and tell people it tastes good.
Impeach Now.
This will invariably backfire on Barry.
Hell, we don’t need to crucify Barry; he is doing a fine job of it himself....
Stephen Hayes with the Weekly Standard said he talked to an interrogator who said he is just going to ask the questions on the card he holds in his hand and not go out of his way now to get any more information since the Obama administration is intent upon protecting terrorists and pursuing our interrogators.
“The report says one interrogator threatened to kill the children of one Sept. 11 suspect, while others used a “pressure point” tactic that temporarily choked off the flow of blood to the brain before the detainee was revived.”
Is there a problem with this? I hope it was only after they beat his balls off...
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