Published: Mon, 24 Aug 2009
Description: (NECN/ABC) - In Washington today, there is news that a special prosecutor has been named to investigate the alleged mistreatment of terror suspects, post-9/11, by the CIA or contractors. This, as a newly classified report makes claims that some de...
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" Attorney general Eric Holder decided to have reopened nearly a dozen detainee abuse cases at current and former US prisons around the world. Such as what tonne and -- and Abu Ghraib in Iraq. Is also point eight a special prosecutor to investigate -- CIA interrogators and contractors violated US torture statutes. The president supports holder's decisions according to a White House spokesperson."
" He does agree with the attorney general that anyone who conducted actions that'd been sanctioned should not be prosecuted. But ultimately. Decisions on who's investigated. The Who has prosecuted are up to the attorney general the release."
" Of thousands of pages from the CIA department of defense and the Department of Justice detailed detainee treatment in the aftermath of September 11 and this includes deaths of those in custody. And so called enhanced interrogation techniques such as mock executions with a gun. And severe water boarding."
" As horrifying as the contents of the report are we are gratified that the Obama administration. Has finally released it."
" The White House inherited this controversial policy that's caused divisions within the administration's ranks. CIA director Leon Panetta is promising to stand up for agents who were following orders."
" But they found out by reading this report from the CIA's own inspector general. Is that there were some people who went beyond evil the very broad new rules they were given. And those people. Are now likely to be prosecuted."
" President Obama approved a new terrorist interrogation unit led by the FBI and approved by the White House all questioning will fall under the rules of the army field manual which prohibits harsh interrogation techniques. -- title ABC news Washington."