Obama Administration Will Finally Drop CIA Torture Investigation
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, June 30, 2011, 10:21 PM
In May Obama CIA Chief Leon Panetta told NBC News that Intelligence garnered from waterboarded detainees was used to track down al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and kill him.
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But at that time the Obama Administration was still investigating CIA officials who had performed the advanced interrogation techniques on captured Al-Qaeda terrorists.
Today the Obama Administration finally announced that they would drop their investigations of CIA officials involved in torture.
It’s about time.
The National Journal reported:
The Justice Department will end a wide-ranging probe into the CIA’s past interrogation, rendition, and detention activities, but it will launch a formal criminal investigation into agency officials involved in the deaths of two detainees, Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Thursday…
…The probe has been hanging over the CIA, and Holder’s decision to end it was immediately welcomed by key officials.
Notably, Holder made his announcement only minutes before the Senate voted 94-0 to confirm Gen. David Petraeus as the next CIA director. The announcement was also made on the last day for current CIA Director Leon Panetta, who is heading to the Pentagon as the next Defense secretary.
“After extensive examination of more than 100 instances in which CIA had contact or was alleged to have had contact with terrorist detainees, [Durham] has determined that no further law enforcement action is appropriate in all but two discrete cases,” Panetta said in a message to CIA employees.
“No decision has been made to bring criminal charges,” added Panetta, who fiercely defended CIA agents during his tenure. “Both cases were previously reviewed by career federal prosecutors who subsequently declined prosecution. The agency will, of course, continue to cooperate fully in the remaining investigations.”
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Gman commented:
Must have found out the CIA officials were part of the Black Panthers
the real wow commented:
Took him long enough. Is this perchance a little quid pro quo because of the fiasco with the Mexican fiasco? Is he perhaps trying to get Congress to drop the investigation?
Mike W commented:
They have decided that whistle blowers are their top priority now.
big L commented:
where do they go to get their reputation back?(credit Labor secy in Nixon admin that was aquited in 15 mins.)
Mad Hatter commented:
#2 the real wow,
He might be hoping for that, but Operation Fast and Furious runs deep, I don’t think they’ll have any luck in keeping it quiet. When you watch Issa in these hearings (interesting enough the hearings were shifted to C-SPAN 3) I think this is going to get worse for Obama, before it ever comes close to going away.
Watch Eric Holder stonewall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NqH88cSBqI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7RHE4WyWzs
Issa on the April 27th Roger Hedgecock Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alk_hbX30k4&feature=related
I have confidence that Issa isn’t going to let this go regardless what Obama says or does.
gus commented:
FEAR. Obama realizes that his GIGANTIC NARCISSISTIC, SOCIOPATHIC EGO, is about to be SH!TCANNED BACK to the STONEAGE.
Fear.
Lance commented:
It was never going any further than this. Too many dems on committees that approved of enhanced interrogation. The monkeys shriek and the sheep go bah.
the real wow commented:
#6 June 30, 2011 at 11:19 pm
gus commented:
One can only hope.
#1AMERICAN commented:
should never have opened up the investigation in the first palce but that was against “whites” not holders “people” the black panthers
Faye commented:
I hope for the sake of these CIA workers that have been harassed by this admin that this truly is the end of the harassment. However I don’t trust our DOJ and until Holder is out and O is out if I were them I would not stop looking over my shoulder or dismiss the personal lawyers they had to hire to fight this.
kato commented:
This investigation was for the benefit of the antiwar left, who have gone strangely quiet, despite the expansion of the war in Afghanistan and the opening of a new war in Libya. I guess kissing black ass still trumps all other leftist values.
Liberals are sNOw flakes commented:
Why don they investigate Holder for killing our ICE agents with ATF weapons given to gang lords in Mexico????!!!! How about that????!! I can’t believe we cant do anything to this guy for allowing WEAPONS to kill our American boys!!! What about Lemer Barhir (DOJ) not sending 17,000 voting forms to our soldiers??? Will they do this this election???? All they do is support the Islamic Terrorists who want to KILL us..and they support HAMAS–our enemy is in the friggin WH!!
Tjexcite commented:
It might have been part of the bribe for General Petraeus to leave the military and become the chief of CIA. DOJ will drop the investigation if he wanted the job with his first order being to protect the agents like Panetta was to do but never did.
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