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Breaking: AG to Appoint Special Prosecutor to Investigate Torture

About bleeping time!  From the Washington Post:

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects, according to two sources familiar with the move.

Holder is poised to name John Durham, a career Justice Department prosecutor from Connecticut, to lead the inquiry, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the process is not complete.

Durham’s mandate, the sources added, will be relatively narrow: to look at whether there is enough evidence to launch a full-scale criminal investigation of current and former CIA personnel who may have broken the law in their dealings with detainees. 

At least someone is determined to actually get to the bottom of all this. And, guess what? The argument that doing this would somehow damage bipartisanship has proven to be total BS since the Rethugs have already destroyed that particular meme.

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