Thread: DOJ unit wants CIA abuse cases reopened

The Justice Department's ethics office has recommended that Attorney General Eric Holder reopen and pursue several CIA prisoner-abuse cases, a government official said Monday, amid a report that President Barack Obama has approved creation of a special unit of interrogators reporting directly to the White House.



Subjecting prisoner abuse cases to possible prosecution would reverse the policy of the Bush administration, which had closed the cases. Such a move could expose CIA employees and agency contractors to criminal prosecution for the alleged mistreatment of terror suspects in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks.



The recommendation by the Office of Professional Responsibility was recently presented to Holder, the official, speaking on grounds of anonymity, told The Associated Press. The ethics recommendation comes as Justice is to disclose a 2004 report by the CIA's inspector general detailing prisoner-abuse allegations.

My hope is that this will lead to some accountability.



http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...r38BAD9A97O480

The report is said to contain memos that Dick Cheney wanted released. The memos are reported to detail some of the positive results that came from certain interrogation techniques.



I was never for the war in Iraq, nor would I consider myself pro-torture. Still, if it turns out that waterboarding some asshole saved American lives, or making some other guy wear panties on his head made our troops safer, then everyone would do well to re-evaluate exactly where they stand on this issue. 3 people were waterboarded. Three. It isn't like the Bush administration was running Auschwitz.

[quote name='Blueneck' date='24 August 2009 - 07:04 AM' timestamp='1251115489' post='10400']

My hope is that this will lead to some accountability.



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Agreed. This will be an indictment of the behavior of the Bush administration.

[quote name='Bourne' date='24 August 2009 - 09:04 AM' timestamp='1251122697' post='10419']

Agreed. This will be an indictment of the behavior of the Bush administration.

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No it will be about the CIA officials and interrogations who made sure the terrorist didn't kill you.



This is disgraceful and the CIA will take years to recover just like after the Church commission got through with which set up our being blind to the threats out there.

Obama White House v. CIA; Panetta Threatened to Quit

Tensions Lead to CIA Director's "Screaming Match" at the White House



A "profanity-laced screaming match" at the White House involving CIA Director Leon Panetta, and the expected release today of another damning internal investigation, has administration officials worrying about the direction of its newly-appoint intelligence team, current and former senior intelligence officials tell ABC News.com.



http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8398902



Obama is losing in the polls and THIS is how he hopes to save his political arse. Shameful.

They will not open any meaningful investigation. This, IMO, is smoke and mirrors, soon we will hear from Cheney and the so called two parties will "argue" about this, the false paradigm will be once more solidified, meanwhile they will both continue their rip off of the American people. It seems every time the polls go down, someone will want to investigate the last admin. It is getting predictable.

[quote name='Dispondent' date='24 August 2009 - 02:30 PM' timestamp='1251142216' post='10507']

Didn't Obama already give blanket immunity to the intelligence operatives when he spoke at the CIA earlier this year? If that is the case how can he or his administration begin to look into anyone else? We didn't allow, "I was just following orders" as an excuse at Nuremburg, so we damn sure better not let that be an excuse here. If immunity has already been given to any participants this issue should be over.

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He said he was, but he's in a nose dive in the polls and needs an issue to divert and rally support so he's throwing them under the bus.