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newsweek.com - 7/11/2009
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Attorney General May Probe Bush Torture Policy | ...
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Probe of Alleged Torture Weighed
salon.com - 7/22/2009
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(updated below - Update II - Update III)
Amazingly, reports that Eric Holder is considering commencing an...
investigation into Bush-era torture crimes has created extreme consternation in multiple Beltway circles despite how narrow and limited those ...
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Stephen Colbert on Chuck Todd and torture investigations ...
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Feingold Pushes AG to Hold Torture Architects Accountable
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Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, the chief Senate critic of executive excess and wrongdoing during both Republican and Democratic administrations, wants Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a prosecutor to investigate the CIA's harsh interrogation program. But Feingold wants Holder to do it right. The chair of the Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee is concerned that the appointment of a prosecutor by Holder, which now seems increasingly likely , come with a charge by the attorney general "to focus on holding accountable the architects of the CIA's ...
To Investigate CIA You Must Target Cheney
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Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold, the chief critic of executive excess and wrongdoing in the Senate during recent Republican and Democratic administrations, wants Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a prosecutor to investigate the CIA's harsh interrogation program. But Feingold wants Holder to do it right. The chair of the Constitution subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee is concerned that the appointment of a prosecutor by Holder -- which now seems increasingly likely -- come with a charge by the attorney general "to focus on holding accountable the ...
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