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Report: Holder may yet initiate torture probe

 
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Report: Holder may yet initiate torture probe
[link to rawstory.com]
By Stephen C. Webster

Published: July 11, 2009
Updated 3 hours ago

In spite of President Barack Obama’s reluctance, Attorney General Eric Holder may yet appoint a special prosecutor to plumb the depths of the Bush administration’s torture program, according to a published report.

“Four knowledgeable sources” told Newsweek that Holder’s decision could come in a matter of weeks.

“Such a decision would roil the country, would likely plunge Washington into a new round of partisan warfare, and could even imperil Obama’s domestic priorities, including health care and energy reform,” the magazine reported. “Holder knows all this, and he has been wrestling with the question for months. ‘I hope that whatever decision I make would not have a negative impact on the president’s agenda,’ he says. ‘But that can’t be a part of my decision.’”

President Obama’s attorney general has called waterboarding “torture,” affirming that under his watch, “my Justice Department will not justify it, will not rationalize it and will not condone it.”

“The use and sanction of torture is at odds with the history of American jurisprudence and American values,” he said in March. “It undermines our ability to pursue justice fairly, and it puts our own brave soldiers in peril should they ever be captured on a foreign battlefield.”

Holder also led a review of the treatment of terror suspects.

Obama ordered the review as one of his first acts in office, as he also ordered the closing of the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention center, the CIA’s secret prisons abroad and special interrogation authorities for terror detainees.

With AFP.

Last Edited by FreeFlow on 07/11/2009 07:34 PM
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Re: Report: Holder may yet initiate torture probe
bump they are getting closer and closer ...
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Holder considers torture prosecutions

WASHINGTON, July 12 (UPI) -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is considering having a prosecutor investigate allegations of CIA torture of suspected terrorists, The Washington Post said.
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Re: Report: Holder may yet initiate torture probe
Holder considers torture prosecutions

WASHINGTON, July 12 (UPI) -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is considering having a prosecutor investigate allegations of CIA torture of suspected terrorists, The Washington Post said.
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I so hope this is another sign it is gathering pace finally.

Last Edited by FreeFlow on 07/12/2009 12:08 PM
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