Holder Now "Leaning Toward" Appointing a Prosecutor for Illegal Interrogations

[garybeck]

I'll believe it when I see it, but there it is, in black and white, right on the CNN website:

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Attorney General Eric Holder is leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's interrogation practices, a source familiar with the process confirmed to CNN.

The source did not want to be identified by name because the process is ongoing, and no decision has been made.

Newsweek, which first reported Holder's inclination to name a prosecutor, also reported that the attorney general has asked his staff for a list of 10 candidates who might serve as that prosecutor if one is named.

A Justice Department official told CNN a decision could come in the next few weeks. The official, who also did not want to be named because of the ongoing process, said that if the attorney general does proceed, it will be a very "narrowly tailored" investigation, looking at only those who might have gone beyond the legal guidance at the time in conducting interrogations.

Such an investigation would counter public statements by President Barack Obama that the nation needs to look forward and not back.

"We have made no decisions on investigations or prosecutions, including whether to appoint a prosecutor to conduct further inquiry," Justice Department spokesman Matt Miller said in a statement Sunday.

rest of article:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/12/source-holder-considers-prosecutor-to-probe-interrogations/

[NewJeffCT]

1. Newsweek had it yesterday

so, the story has some legs, and it was tops on Yahoo for a while this morning.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8523395&mesg_id=8523395

[garybeck]

2. ya but the other OPs say he's "considering"

and when I saw "leaning toward" i figured it deserves a new thread

[Cant trust em]

3. I'd give this a 50-50 shot at actually happening. nt

[garybeck]

5. yeah well a week ago I would have given it a 10-1 odds

it seemed like everything Obama/Holder had done so far was basically cover Bush's tracks. I was becoming very doubtful that anything would ever happen, unless maybe the UN or some Spanish court got involved, neither which would have done anything, other than fuel anti-UN sentiment in the right wing dittohead land.

50-50 sounds pretty good now.

[babylonsister]

4. It's all over the place; he should be sharing what he wants to do this

soon. Fingers crossed.

[maglatinavi]

6. unlawful interrogations

I am so frigging mad with O and H that I could spit fire...they are either for justice or not ... if not, lets forget about ever, ever be the nation of justice ...... are they frigging clowns or what? it is the nation's integrity and principles that is at play ... not the politicians with weak knees y sin cojones ...