ACLU: Appoint a Special Prosecutor

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https://www.aclu.org/national-security/senate-torture-report-shows-need-accountability

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This should be the beginning of a process, not the end. The report should shock President Obama and Congress into action, to make sure that torture and cruelty are never used again. The Department of Justice needs to appoint a special prosecutor to hold the architects and perpetrators of the torture program accountable for its design, implementation, and cover-ups. Congress must assert its constitutional role in the system of checks and balances, and oversee the CIA, which in this report sounds more like a rogue paramilitary group than the intelligence gathering agency that it’s supposed to be. The president needs to use the moral authority of his office to formally recognize both the torture program’s victims and those in government who resisted this shameful and illegal policy.

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This may be the way to get to trial.

Of course, I have to go to the foreign press to find a discussion:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2014/dec/10/cia-torture-report-reaction-live#block-54886338e4b02a617b94d769

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Read further reasoning by the ACLU here. Points include:

The Justice Department Has The Tools To Hold Those Who Authorized Torture Accountable

Neither the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 nor the discredited memos written by the Office of Legal Counsel provide a “golden shield”

A Comprehensive Criminal Investigation is Long Overdue

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Edited to add:

Remember how the county prosecutors and the police work hand in hand every day and are biased toward each other when the police go bad? Well the CIA and the Executive are the same way. Appoint a special prosecutor.