No Charges For CIA Tape Destruction: Justice Dept -- Reuters(Reuters) - No CIA personnel will face criminal charges for destroying videotapes of harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
While the decision will spare the CIA and the Obama administration the potential backlash and embarrassment that a trial could have generated, another federal probe continues into possible abuse of detainees by CIA personnel.
The videotapes probe was launched in January 2008 by then-U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey after revelations that the CIA in 2005 had destroyed hundreds of hours of videotapes of the interrogations of terrorism suspects Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
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My Comment: I am surprised by this development. The Justice Department has no love for the CIA and their complicity in using torture in interrogations. Was this a politically motivated judgment .... probably .... will it impact CIA operations in the future .... definitely not.