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AP source: Holder considering torture probe (AP)
news.yahoo.com - 7/12/2009
AP source: Holder considering torture probe (AP)
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AP - Attorney General Eric Holder is considering whether to appoint a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's interrogation practices.
newsweek.com - 7/11/2009
Attorney General May Probe Bush Torture Policy | Newsweek Politics
— newsweek.com — It's the morning after Independence Day, and Eric Holder Jr. is feeling the weight of history. The... night before, he'd stood on the roof of the White House alongside the president of the United States, leaning over a railing to watch fireworks burst ... (more) Attorney General May Probe Bush Torture Policy | ...

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balloon-juice.com - 7/12/2009
Splitting Waterboarding The Baby
— balloon-juice.com — Maybe I’m ungrateful, but this trial balloon spelling out Eric Holder’s maybe plans to prosecute torture strikes... me as something close to the worst of both worlds. On the one hand Holder looks likely to appoint a federal prosecutor to ... (more) Splitting Waterboarding The Baby

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Torture Prosecution Turnaround?  
thedailybeast.com - 7/12/2009
Torture Prosecution Turnaround?  
— thedailybeast.com — BS Top - Horton Prosecutor Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Photo The attorney general is leaning toward... appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Bush-era torture policy, sources tell Scott Horton. Inside the logic driving Eric Holder s possible ... (more) Torture Prosecution Turnaround?  

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AP source: Holder considering torture probe
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... expressed reluctance to having a probe, saying the nation should be "looking forward and not backwards" when it came to Bush-era abuses. Newsweek magazine, which first reported the development on Saturday, said Holder was aware of the political implications of having a probe and preferred not to create unnecessary trouble for the White House. Still, the attorney general was troubled by what he learned in reports about the treatment of prisoners at the CIA's "black sites." Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090712/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/u... This is where all Americans should ...

Justice, Obama/Holder Style
The Corner on National Review Online — ... on videotape intimidating anti-Obama voters charges dropped after DOJ had already won the case. CIA Interrogators who obtained information that saved countless American lives under investigation. ...

Justice, in the style of Obama/Holder
Hyscience — ... CIA Interrogators who obtained information that saved countless American lives -- under investigation.   Bush officials who deliberated over national-security policies that prevented another 9/11 (many of which ...

Justice, Obama/Holder-Style
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... New Black Panther Party operatives on videotape intimidating anti-Obama voters — charges dropped after DOJ had already won the case. Bush officials who deliberated over national-security policies that prevented another 9/11 (many of which the Holder/Obama DOJ have defended in court and, however inadvertently, in Congress) — under investigation. CIA Interrogators who obtained information that saved countless American lives — under ...

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