Reply #34: Just a passing update: DOJ declines to prosecute in CIA torture tape destruction.

[seafan]

Once again, evil flourishes.


November 10, 2010

WASHINGTON — Central Intelligence Agency officials will not face criminal charges for the destruction of dozens of videotapes depicting the brutal interrogation of terrorism suspects, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

After a closely watched investigation of nearly three years, the decision by a special federal prosecutor is the latest example of Justice Department officials’ declining to seek criminal penalties for some of the controversial episodes in the C.I.A.’s now defunct detention and interrogation program.

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Meanwhile, the right wing cranks up the whitewashing machine to sanitize the legacy of their war criminal deity.