(AG) Holder: Review of CIA’s Treatment of Detainees Nearly Complete

[sabra]

Source: main justice

Assistant United States Attorney John Durham is close to completing a preliminary review of whether there is evidence that CIA agents violated the law when they used brutal methods to interrogate terror detainees, Attorney General Eric Holder said in speech Thursday night.

Holder, speaking in a question and answer session after his remarks at the University of the District of Columbia Law School, said Durham is ”close to the end of the time that he needs and will be making some recommendations to me.” Holder’s comments were his fullest status report to date on the one of the Justice Department’s most politically sensitive inquiries.

Holder said the investigation would determine whether intelligence officers went beyond the restrictions, outlined by the Office of Legal Counsel in a series of classified legal opinions which were written during the George W. Bush administration and which have since been disavowed.

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“What I made clear is that for those people who acted in conformity with Justice Department opinions from the Office of Legal Counsel that said you could do certain things… people who acted in good faith in line with the Department of Justice guidance, will not be the people we are looking at or interested in,” Holder said Thursday.

“It’s a question of whether people went beyond those pretty far-out OLC opinions, people who went beyond that,” Holder said. “That’s what we’re looking at.”

Read more: http://www.mainjustice.com/2010/06/18/review-of-cias-treatment-of-detainees-nearly-complete/

[saigon68]

1. Nothing to see---MOVE ALONG or face arrest

[Soylent Brice]

2. K&R

[OnyxCollie]

3. Just "faulty judgements" and "policy differences."

Go back to sleep.

[Solly Mack]

4. ....

"brutal methods", "enhanced interrogation" - never calling it what it is...torture. No "amounted to" to it...it was torture.

Nothing like "good faith" torture to make it all better.

"far-out OLC opinions" snort...those "far-out" opinions claimed waterboarding was legal and waterboarding is a form of torture...so we have so-called legal opinions that claimed torture is legal and we're only going to go after those agents who went beyond the torture that was labeled legal....yet we have laws that plainly state torture is never legal. I hear the clickety-clack of tap shoes.

"harsh techniques like waterboarding" Uh...waterboarding is a form of torture - there is no "amounted to" to it.... merely calling it harsh doesn't even begin to tell the truth about it.


The US government tortured people and to use words or excuses that in any way fall short of that truth is just plain bullshit.

[Iowa]

7. Well said.

[Ian David]

5. This COULD be a good October Surprise. n/t

[JDPriestly]

6. We shall see. Torture is torture. Waterboarding is torture.

Legal memos don't change that fact.

[fascisthunter]

8. another white wash no doubt

[UTUSN]

9. K&R #6 n/t

[EFerrari]

10. K&R