C.I.A. Closing Secret Overseas Sites for Terror Detainees

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/world/10detain.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=panetta&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:40 AM
Subject: re: C.I.A. Closing Secret Overseas Sites for Terror Detainees
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
  Although the decision to prosecute torturers rests with our
Attorney General, and not with our head of C.I.A., mr. Panetta owes us
a fuller exposition of his theory of responsibility. Is George Bush
alone guilty, because his Justice department "had declared their
actions legal"? Does guilt reside somewhere in the Department of
Justice? Does guilt magically cease to exist if the conspiracy is big
enough? Any one of these would be an interesting theory. We wait
eagerly to hear him defend any one of them.
Barry Levine