No Charges Filed on Harsh Tactics Used by the C.I.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/us/holder-rules-out-prosecutions-in-cia-interrogations.html?pagewanted=all

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From: barry levine 
Date: Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Subject: re: No Charges Filed on Harsh Tactics Used by the C.I.A.
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To the Editor:

  It long been established that: 1-men were waterboarded while in U.S. custody, 2-that waterboarding is torture, 3-that torture violates both U.S. statute and our treaty obligations and 4-that our Executive is sworn  to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed".   Yet the only investigation launched to date was John Durham's inquiry in to possible violations of the Department of Justice's internal guidelines, not of the law. Attorney General Eric Holder hints darkly that there might have been a prosecution but the evidence is not admissible in court. That may prove problematic in all the torture prosecutions. But it does not excuse his failure in his sworn duty to properly investigate these crimes.

Barry Haskell Levine