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DOJ Report to Recommend Pursuing Detainee Abuse Cases

Posted Aug 24, 2009 5:42 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss

A report by the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility will recommend reopening almost a dozen cases alleging abuse of terrorism detainees during their interrogations, a source tells the New York Times.

Many observers believe Attorney General Eric Holder will appoint a prosecutor to investigate; his decision is expected within days, according to the story.

The report will include details of abuses uncovered by the inspector general of the CIA in 2004. Prosecutors previously opted against prosecution, but Holder reconsidered the decision after taking office and seeing the details.

Among the allegations, included in a report by the CIA inspector general: CIA interrogators threatened an al-Qaida commander with a drill and a gun, and staged mock executions, Newsweek reports, relying on sources who read a draft version. The Washington Post also had the story.

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B. McLeod
Aug 24, 2009 6:26 AM CST

It is probably not a good idea to drag out all the details, unless there is actually an intent to prosecute the cases seriously.  If these turn into another handful of cases where horrific details are published to the international media, followed by a few slaps on the wrist, it will just be another international relations disaster.

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J.D.
Aug 24, 2009 8:12 AM CST

So Holder is concerned about mere allegations of abuse aimed at foreign terrorists, BUT he has no interest in investigated anti-white voter intimidation by Black Panthers for which we have videotape evidence…. I guess in his mind the Obama Admin can score greater political points with their far-left constituents by only investigating the former. And that’s really what this is all about: mere politics.

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J.D.
Aug 24, 2009 8:15 AM CST

And McLeod, don’t you see that your scenario is exactly what they want? Any opportunity to make the U.S. look bad, and the far-left jumps on it. Again, these are mere allegations. Look into them; investigate. If that were all that was going on here, most people wouldn’t have a problem with it. But this is really an attempt to tear down the U.S. so that there is (false) justification for a radical overhaul of our way of life.

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T.R.
Aug 24, 2009 8:30 AM CST

Every so often, the CIA gets its closet cleaned out.  No big deal.

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Time
Aug 24, 2009 11:05 AM CST

Keeping the horrific details quite just encourages future Agents to commit more such atrocities in the future.  Better to remove the leach and heal the wound.

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J.D.
Aug 24, 2009 11:29 AM CST

Al qaeda would agree with you, #5. BUT, proving that this is only about politics—i.e. a desperate attempt to make Republicans look bad (a strategy doomed to fail)—is the fact that the White House is announcing the creation of a NEW interrogation unit. Read all about it:

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/24/official-white-house-sets-interrogation-unit/?feat=home_headlines

Basically, this is just a shell game and the libs in the Obama Admin are trying everything they can to score political points with the Code Pink types, but nevertheless continuing the rational and necessary policies of the Bush Administration.

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Time
Aug 24, 2009 11:53 AM CST

Yeah, that’s what it is.  Lord in heaven.

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