Attorney General
AG Reportedly Close to Appointment of Prosecutor for Interrogation Probe
Posted Aug 10, 2009 9:08 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly close to appointing a criminal prosecutor to probe allegations that the CIA committed abuses in the interrogation of terrorism suspects.
Unnamed government officials told the Los Angeles Times that the probe would focus on whether officials went beyond techniques authorized in Justice Department memos.
Some of the cases likely to be probed involve use of waterboarding that went beyond guidelines, a CIA operative who brought a gun into an interrogation, and the deaths of detainees in CIA custody, according to the story.
A Justice Department memo said waterboarding generally loses its effectiveness after repeated use, yet it was used 183 times on Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, according to a CIA report released this year. Large amount of water were used, rather than a small amount dripped from a canteen, the amount envisioned in a Justice Department memo.
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Comments
J.D.
Aug 10, 2009 9:38 AM CST
This liberal lie still hasn’t died, huh? No one was waterboarded 183 times. Not even the waterboardees are suggesting this. Only the anti-American “International Red Cross” and the activist group know as the New York Times are claiming this.
“The water was poured 183 times—there were 183 pours,” the official explained, adding that “each pour was a matter of seconds.”
Mohammed said: “I was also subjected to ‘water-boarding’ on five occasions, all of which occurred during the first month.” Those were his five “sessions.”
The other claim is that the CIA waterboarded senior Al Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah 83 times, but Zubayda himself says he was waterboarded no more than 10 times.
So can Eric Holder now move on to the Black Panther intimidation at the election polls? Or since the Black Panthers are also Democrat Party officials are we not interested in voter intimidation, Mr. Holder?
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Time
Aug 10, 2009 9:50 AM CST
Let the prosecutor sort it out and determine if any laws were broken.
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B. McLeod
Aug 10, 2009 2:12 PM CST
Certainly the deaths in CIA custody merit some inquiry. I suppose they haven’t heard the adage that you don’t shoot first and ask questions later.
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