Former CIA heads urge Obama to halt interrogation investigation

babsbunny

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Sat Sep-19-09 11:20 AM
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Former CIA heads urge Obama to halt interrogation investigation

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/18/obama-cia-director-interrogation

Associated Press

Seven former directors served during both Democratic and Republican administrations

Seven former CIA directors are asking President Barack Obama to quash US attorney general Eric Holder's investigation into harsh CIA interrogations of terror suspects during the Bush administration.

The request came in a letter today from CIA directors who served both Democratic and Republican presidents, including three who served former president George W Bush.

Holder announced in August that he was appointing an independent counsel to investigate incidents of potential abuse that were reported by the CIA inspector general to the US justice department.

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KansDem

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Sat Sep-19-09 11:33 AM
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1. What are they trying to hide?

...besides raping women and sodomizing children for information...

Why wasn't there an "outcry" from these "concerned" directors when Plame was outed?

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Vincardog

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Sat Sep-19-09 11:35 AM
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2. The DOJ is an independent agency right? That is why w is in trouble for the POLITICAL firings and

political prosecutions right? We don't want to keep allowing POLITICAL interference in out legal system would we?

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gratuitous

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Sat Sep-19-09 11:42 AM
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3. Hmmmm, maybe Congress should de-fund CIA?

Then they could do whatever they wanted to without all that pesky oversight from a bunch of nosy parker taxpayers.

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