Justice Department Won't Pursue Bulk of CIA Detention Cases (Only 2)

[tekisui]

Source: LA Times

The Justice Department has decided not to file criminal charges in the vast majority of cases involving the Central Intelligence Agency's former interrogation, detention and kidnapping program.

In a statement to CIA employees on his last day as CIA director, Leon Panetta said that after examining more than 100 instances in which the CIA allegedly had contact with terrorism detainees, Assistant U.S. Atty. John Durham has decided that further investigation is warranted in just two cases, each resulting in deaths.

Panetta, who is to be sworn in as Defense secretary Friday, did not disclose any details about those cases, but it has been widely reported that one involves Manadel al-Jamadi, who died in 2003 at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq after he was questioned in a shower by a CIA interrogator.

“In those two cases—each involving a detainee fatality—the Department of Justice has determined that further investigation is warranted,” Panetta said. “No decision has been made to bring criminal charges. Both cases were previously reviewed by career federal prosecutors who subsequently declined prosecution.”

more: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-doj-detainee-20110630,0,6275400.story?track=rss

[Rex]

1. Why would they!? The JD is still run by the same people that endorsed

the CIA to break the law in the first place!

[Octafish]

2. Just Us.

Obama's War on Whistleblowers