newshoggers.com - 2/7/2009
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By Cernig
The AP reports that CIA Director-nominee Leon Panetta has stated categorically that there will be no prosecutions for torturers .
Asked by The Associated Press if that was official policy, Panetta said, "That is the case."
It was the clearest statement yet on what Panetta and ...
telegraph.co.uk - 2/7/2009
google.com - 2/6/2009
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8 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) The United States
will continue to hand foreign detainees over to other
countries for questioning, but only with assurances they will not be tortured, Leon Panetta told a Senate committee considering his confirmation as ...
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The Associated Press: Panetta takes back remarks on ...
swamppolitics.com - 2/5/2009
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by Mark Silva Another senior-level and sensitive appointee
of the Obama administration may be facing questions over
his work in the private sector: Leon Panetta, the president's nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency and ...
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CIA Panetta's fees: Defense, banking
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... So someday soon CIA chief Leon Panetta doesn’t see any prosecutions of those following orders, those people just doing their jobs, even if what their jobs was was torturing people. Cernig points out a certain loopy logic here. ...
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