cbsnews.com - 4/16/2009
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Administration Tells CIA Officials That Justice Department Doesn't Plan To Charge Them For Harsh Interrogation Techniques Comments Comments 104 WASHINGTON, April 16, 2009 (CBS/AP) Seeking to move beyond what he calls a "a dark and painful chapter in our history," President Barack Obama said ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 4/16/2009
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Here are the OLC torture memos just released
by the Justice Department... An 18-page memo [PDF], dated...
August 1, 2002, from Jay Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, OLC, to John A. Rizzo, General Counsel CIA. A 46-page memo [PDF], dated May 10, ...
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Torture Memos Released
msnbc.msn.com - 4/16/2009
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msnbc.msn.com —
The Obama administration is telling CIA officials who
used waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics on terror...
suspects that they won't be prosecuted by the Justice Department.
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CIA employees won't be tried for waterboarding
propublica.org - 4/17/2009
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propublica.org —
A newly released memo inadvertently reveals the name
of a 'ghost detainee' Among the OLC memos released...
today , one appears to inadvertently reveal that a top al-Qaida suspect captured in northern Iraq in January 2004 was held by the CIA in a secret ...
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Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and ...
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Hope ‘N Change: Obama Won’t Be Prosecuting Anyone For Waterboarding
Say Anything —
Another day, another disappointment for Obama’s left wing base as The One picks pragmatism (and national security) over revenge politics and opportunism.
And, frankly, good on him for it.
Attorney General Eric Holder says the government won’t prosecute CIA officials for using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics on terror suspects…
Holder said in a statement Thursday it would be unfair to prosecute CIA employees for following the legal advice given at the time. And he says the government will ...
Oh my: Obama won’t prosecute CIA agents for waterboarding jihadists
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... for this “betrayal”? A fait accompli. Attorney General Eric Holder says the government won’t prosecute CIA officials for using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics on terror suspects… Holder said in a statement Thursday it would be unfair to prosecute CIA employees for following the legal advice given at the time. And he says the government will defend any CIA employee in any court action brought in the U.S. or overseas.“This is a time for reflection, not retribution,” President Barack Obama said in a statement. It’s also a time for releasing Bush-era memos on ...
Obama Won’t Prosecute CIA Agents for Waterboarding
Stop The ACLU —
... Posted on April 16, 2009 Of course it would be an outrage to me if he were to prosecute these agents for following orders of a former president. It would also set him off on the wrong foot with the agency. However, expect a little faux outrage from the base. But don’t expect to hear it for more than twenty four hours, then they’ll pretend like it never happened. ...
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Obama to shield CIA interrogators from charges —
Reuters: Politics 4/16/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA agents who used waterboarding on terrorism suspects will not be prosecuted, President Barack Obama said on Thursday as his administration released Bush-era memos showing interrogators had official guidance that the practice ...
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