Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. testified last week on Capitol Hill. He is weighing an investigation of past interrogations. Gerald Herbert/Associated PressFrom The New York Times:
WASHINGTON — As the attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., debates whether to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate the interrogations of terrorism suspects after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he is at the brink of a career-defining decision that risks the anger of the White House and the Central Intelligence Agency, one of the Justice Department’s main partners in combating terrorism.
There is no surprise then that Mr. Holder is said by officials to have been resistant at first to the idea of appointing a prosecutor, particularly since the Obama administration has made it clear that it wants to put the issue of interrogation practices during the Bush administration behind it. But associates have said he told them that he reacted with disgust when he recently read graphic accounts of interrogations in a 2004 C.I.A. inspector general’s report to be publicly released next month.
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My Comment: The history of special prosecutors is that they never stop .... they will always go up the chain of command.
Will AG Eric Holder appoint one?
My guess is that he will. There has never been any love lost between the CIA and Liberal Democrats .... and Eric Holder is one (very) Liberal Democrat. He will appoint a special prosecutor because he (and many others) believe that this is the right thing to do, and will ignore (which he should) President Obama comments that he does not want to go down this road.
There are going to be consequences from opening this Pandora's box. Is the U.S. ready to face this .... hmmmm ..... we shall see.