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

[The Northerner]

The Justice Department will end a wide-ranging probe into the CIA’s past interrogation, rendition, and detention activities, but it will launch a formal criminal investigation into agency officials involved in the deaths of two detainees, Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Thursday.

“The department has determined that an expanded criminal investigation of the remaining matters is not warranted,” Holder said in a statement.

Holder said he accepted the recommendation of longtime federal prosecutor John Durham to proceed with a criminal investigation into the deaths of the two detainees, adding that Durham’s team “reviewed a tremendous volume of information pertaining to the detainees” that included “both information and matters that had never previously been examined by the department.”

the attorney general tapped Durham in 2009 to review cases of alleged detainee mistreatment and death at the hands of CIA interrogators and contractors under the George W. Bush administration.

The probe has been hanging over the CIA, and Holder’s decision to end it was immediately welcomed by key officials.

Read more: http://www.nationaljournal.com/holder-justice-to-drop-investigations-into-cia-officials-involved-in-torture-20110630

[ThomWV]

1. And how about CIA Officials who purposefully destroyed evidence (tapes)

[fascisthunter]

2. lol

[derby378]

3. Treason?

Criminal charges dealing with only two deaths. I think we got rooked.

[CrispyQ]

4. Now he can get on with busting more dispensaries.

Unbelievable priorities we have in this country.

[EFerrari]

5. One of the first things Obama did was to assure CIA there would be no prosecutions.

So, I don't see how this kabuki that Holder has been having over at DoJ ever got any cred in the first place.