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Coca-Cola on 17 April 2009

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5imDvIlEBNgzKdqYgIuTUEzUEImrQD97JNKSG0

The Obama administration on Thursday informed CIA officials who used waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics on terror suspects that they will not be prosecuted, senior administration officials told The Associated Press.

Even before President Barack Obama took office in January, aides signaled his administration was not likely to bring criminal charges against CIA employees for their roles in the secret, coercive terrorist interrogation program. It had been deemed legal at the time through opinions issued by the Justice Department under the Bush administration.

But the statement being issued Thursday by Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation's chief law enforcement officer, is the first definitive assurance that those CIA officials are in the clear, as long as their actions were in line with the legal advice at the time.



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ironman on 17 April 2009

Well good for him, at least he's doing something right!



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akuma587 on 17 April 2009

Too much political baggage if he would try to do it. Could turn into a McCarthyesque fiasco and bitterly divide the country. Its the right decision. Although it certainly wouldn't hurt to declassify a lot of that information. The information should still be available to the people even if there are no prosecutions.



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Paul_Warren on 17 April 2009

He's not behaving in all the ways I hoped he would. But Bush didn't either.



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ironman on 17 April 2009

yeah, Bush drove a stake through the hearts of many conservatives.



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