We've heard it before. US Attorney General Eric Holder may seek a special prosecutor to investigate torture. Then again, maybe not. It's apparently a tough decision the AGUS has to make -- do we prosecute something that's so obviously a crime? Yeah, that's a real stumper. I know that when police find a body with a blade in its back, they stay up late pondering the consequences of putting someone behind bars for leaving the knife there. How many lives would be destroyed, will brilliant and promising careers be ended? You can't rush into these things, you see...So Holder has struggled with the question; should people be held accountable for something that any serious observer knows is an international war crime? It's enough to make a fella start drinking... a tough, tough question.
And a question that seems closer to being answered.
LA Times:
U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, current and former U.S. government officials said.
A senior Justice Department official said that Holder envisioned an inquiry that would be narrow in scope, focusing on "whether people went beyond the techniques that were authorized" in Bush administration memos that liberally interpreted anti-torture laws.
The tough decision may have been made -- at least, partially. The fact is that many of those "techniques that were authorized" were just as illegal as the ones that weren't. You'd almost think that Holder is trying to avoid looking into those authorized techniques. See, doing that would involve investigating those who authorized them and then you'd get those destroyed lives and brilliant careers ending. No one wants that. Clearly, they've suffered enough... [CLICK TO READ FULL POST]
