No punishment planned for CIA over torture

I wonder if Attorney General Holder will show mercy to Addington, Gonzales, Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld and others by prosecuting them all to the fullest extent of US Law. Or whether he shows no mercy and will do nothing but present evidence to be used at The Hague.

Ignoring direct orders to torture people by officials of the US Government in defiance of the Constitution and the Geneva Convention is not an option.

Japanese officials were hanged for the very same offense.
Jim

No punishment planned for CIA over torture
Created 01/10/2009 - 7:21am

"As President-elect Barack Obama assures intelligence officials that his complaints are with the Bush administration, not them, there are growing hints from Democratic Senate allies that spy agency veterans will not be prosecuted for past harsh interrogation and detainee policies.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein told The Associated Press in an interview this week that there is a clear distinction between those who made the policies and those who carried them out.
"They (the CIA) carry out orders and the orders come from the (National Security Council) and the White House, so there's not a lot of policy debate that goes on there," she said. "We're going to continue our looking into the situation and I think that is up to the administration and the director."

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