Eric Holder Announces Full DOJ Investigation Into Deaths Of Two Individuals In CIA Custody

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Source: National Journal

The Justice Department will drop criminal investigations of most CIA officials who participated in the harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday.

However, Holder said his department will continue to investigate those officials responsible for the deaths of two detainees.

The announcement ends a wide-ranging probe that has hung over the CIA due to its past use of enhanced interrogation practices that critics say amounted to torture, such as waterboarding. "The Department has determined that an expanded criminal investigation of the remaining matters is not warranted," Holder said in a statement.

Instead, Holder decided to only conduct a full criminal investigation regarding the death of two detainees who were held by the CIA.

Read more: http://www.nationaljournal.com/holder-justice-to-drop-i..

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Talk about spinning a story!

I left out the part that was in another article? That's a different article.

Still, from your link:



Also,


So the Obama administration had been conducting a "wide-ranging probe" of torture? Runs contrary to the claims there was no investigation, doesn't it?

Did they probe high-level Bush Administration lawyers and other officials who approved of illegal torture?

I think the evidence is pretty clear that high-level Bush Administration officials committed war crimes and approved of torture. They wanted to obtain a link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda in order to justify the invasion of Iraq. Of course that link turned out to be non-existent.

What is Holder waiting for? The evidence is there.

"The Department has determined that an expanded criminal investigation of the remaining matters is not warranted."


what are these "remaining matters" not being investigated???

The above post written at same time I wrote my question, answers my question. The torturers are going to get away with it. :headbang:

failure (redundant), the abuse isn't torture and is therefore lawful.

Right to a Tee - Holder is effectively applying the same rule as under Bush-Cheney.

In 2007. Sounds to me like Bush and his peeps knew dems would win and destroyed stuff in case of investagation.

Aside from all the rhetoric we received at that time, years and years ago, then came the years and years of waiting.