NYT: CIA to Avoid Charges in Most Prisoner Deaths

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/international/asia/23intel.html?hp&ex=1130126400&en=51717b70c87e17a5&ei=5094&partner=homepage

C.I.A. to Avoid Charges in Most Prisoner Deaths

By DOUGLAS JEHL and TIM GOLDEN
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 - Despite indications of C.I.A. involvement in the deaths of at least four prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, C.I.A. employees now appear likely to escape criminal charges in all but one of those incidents, according to current and former intelligence and law enforcement officials.

Federal prosecutors reviewing cases of possible misconduct by C.I.A. employees have recently notified lawyers that they do not intend to bring criminal charges in several cases involving the handling of terrorism suspects and Iraqi insurgents, the officials said.

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The cases became public in April 2004, with reports about abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and have led to the convictions of Pvt. Charles A. Graner Jr., Pfc. Lynndie R. England and other soldiers implicated in those episodes. The decisions are based on reviews of eight dossiers referred to the Justice Department by the C.I.A.'s inspector general, describing possible misconduct by a half dozen to a dozen C.I.A. employees in the deaths and other cases.

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C.I.A. officials have expressed deep unease over the possibility that career officers could be prosecuted or punished administratively for their conduct during interrogations and detentions of terrorism suspects.

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the parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, grandparents, and cousins of the murdered individuals who may or may NOT have been guilty of any crimes except being the wrong color and in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Legislated murder. That's all it is.

Because we're the most powerful nation on the earth we are a superclass of humans afforded basic rights above those of other peoples.

We are allowed to kill and torture not to prevent the killing and torturing of our people, but to prevent the possibility of it occurring.

Despicable.

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of the prisoners. Long, slow, and very painful and then put them on display.Just a passing fantasy.I am weary of the savagery that I hear about and see. These people need to be thrown away.And my fantasy includes their "superiors". Superior to what?

Career officers, huh? So, if you like to make prisoners get naked and do sick shit to them, it's o.k. if you're in it for the long haul??!!

What a crock!!

is what destroys America a little more each day... :SIGH:

It's so true, what you just said

the wonder is in why so many can't see that...

Or is the CIA's sorry ass the only thing we need to be concerned about?

Morally or in terms of future danger to us.
Some day it will be payback time for this country.

be held individually accountable, but we're all taking the heat for it because WE HAVE NOT STOPPED IT.

WHERE THE HELL IS CONGRESS AND OUR JUSTICE DEPT? What is a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for if they can't control the Pentagon. Get rid of them of they won't do their job IN OUR NAME. damn it

Why has GITMO, Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca, ..... been tolerated by ALL OF US? Absolutely worthless Congress must be made to act, somehow, but how?

Totally checked out. The blame goes way beyond a group of sociopaths who took over the WH.