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commentsfromleftfield.com - 4/16/2009
The Fix Is In
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Barack Obama has made his decision : Four DOJ memos will be released , unredacted except for the names of the CIA interrogators who carried out the torture. CIA personnel who tortured detainees using, among other techniques, the partial drowning method called “waterboarding” ...
Obama to release OLC torture memos; promises no prosecutions for CIA officials - Glenn Greenwald
salon.com - 4/16/2009
Obama to release OLC torture memos; promises no prosecutions for CIA officials - Glenn Greenwald
— salon.com — (updated below) In a just-released statement, Barack Obama announced that -- in response to an ACLU FOIA... lawsuit -- he has ordered four key Bush-era torture memos released, and the Associated Press, citing anonymous Obama sources, is reporting that ... (more) Obama to release OLC torture memos; promises no ...

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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 4/16/2009
Torture Memos Released
— 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, ... (more) Torture Memos Released

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CIA employees won't be tried for waterboarding
msnbc.msn.com - 4/16/2009
CIA employees won't be tried for waterboarding
— 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. (more) CIA employees won't be tried for waterboarding

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The Moderate Voice — ... the legal cover they needed to design, carry out, and maintain their regime of torture. I am very pleased and relieved that the four memos are being released with no substantive details censored. But that does not change the fact that the people who authorized and justified the horrors those memos document have today been sent the clear message that they will not be criminally investigated or prosecuted for their acts. Cross-posted from Comments at Left Field.

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Either way, we need to remember this — Unqualified Offerings
By Thoreau By the end of today, the Obama administration will either release DoJ torture memos from the Bush regime, release heavily redacted versions of the memos, or not release them at all. If they are released, the Reds will pull themselves away from their intense teabagging session (hee!) ...