http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/881vlnwr.asp
“Eric Holder’s Anti-CIA Witch Hunt
Second-guessing career prosecutors for political gain.”
by Jennifer Rubin
09/07/2009, Volume 014, Issue 47
SNIPPET: “Holder pronounced himself obligated to “follow the facts and the law.” One critical fact, however, he entirely ignored: Professional prosecutors had already examined the allegations of CIA misconduct, conducted an inquiry, and made a determination—not to prosecute. (One contractor outside the interrogation program was prosecuted for assault.) Holder never mentioned that a task force (informally dubbed the “Detainee Abuse Task Force”) in the Eastern District of Virginia has already considered all of the applicable information, including the
CIA inspector general’s 2004 report made public last week. Following standard procedure, the task force drafted “declination memos” setting forth the rationale for not proceeding with prosecutions.
Those reasons were summed up in a letter from Principal Assistant Deputy Attorney General Brian Benczkowski to Senator Richard Durbin dated February 7, 2008. In each case, Benczkowski wrote, the decision rested on “one or more of the following reasons: insufficient evidence of criminal conduct, insufficient evidence of the subject’s involvement, insufficient evidence of criminal intent, and low probability of conviction.””
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36122
“Obama Goes After CIA”
By: Dick Morris
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, August 31, 2009
SNIPPET: “So he has decided to throw a few CIA interrogators to the wolves.
The report that Holder released to accompany his decision to name a special prosecutor itself showed the trivial nature of the charges against these patriotic anti-terror investigators. Among the allegations prominently featured in the report is that the mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole was scrubbed with a rough brush in the bath so as to cause him pain.
Our heartless interrogators also threatened that they could bring in his family and parents for questioning. How do these “tortures” compare with the deaths of more than a dozen American sailors roasted to death in flames or drowned in the sea?
The CIA report, also released on Monday, demonstrates, within the limits that secrecy allows, how these very interrogations thwarted serious terrorist plots against our country.”