unprosecuted crimes

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/opinion/invitation-to-a-dialogue-unprosecuted-crimes.html

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From: barry levine 
Date: Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:16 AM
Subject: re: unprosecuted crimes
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

  If we are to catalogue the privileged classes who are not held accountable to the Law, the list begins with the officers and agents of our CIA.  Director Panetta famously announced that no one in his agency would be prosecuted for torture even before these crimes were investigated. When an investigator was belated named, he was charged only with finding violations of the DoJ's internal guidelines, not violations of the law.  Our constitution provides the presidential pardon as the unique exception to the rule of one law, applied equally to all.  There is no place in it for a CIA above scrutiny and accountability.

Barry Haskell Levine