CIA Interrogation Deaths: Justice Department To Investigate Deaths Of Two Detainees

[Me.]

“WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department's probe of CIA terrorist interrogation practices is entering a new phase: Attorney General Eric Holder announces there will be a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two men while they were in custody.

The attorney general says that he has accepted the recommendation of a federal prosecutor, John Durham, who has been conducting a long-running inquiry into CIA interrogation practices during the Bush administration.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/30/cia-interrogation-deaths-justice-department-review_n_887969.html

[sudopod]

1. I see what you did there. nt

[leveymg]

2. Now, for the context: Justice to Drop Investigations into CIA Officials Involved in Torture

Holder: Justice to Drop Investigations into CIA Officials Involved in Torture

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...

This pretty much enshrines the Bush-Cheney era status quo and the Bybee-Yoo memo. If it doesn't cause death of major organ failure, it isn't torture, and isn't unlawful. Moving forward.

[Octafish]

3. So it's OK to crush a child's testicles, uh, if it's done in the name of state security?

Uh, national security.

Geez.