CIA contractors will be a focus of interrogation investigation

[kpete]

Source: Los Angeles Times


CIA contractors will be a focus of interrogation investigation
Long-dormant cases involving contractors' role in CIA interrogations will gain new scrutiny by the federal prosecutor named this week to review agency tactics.


By Josh Meyer

August 27, 2009


Reporting from Washington - The Justice Department prosecutor appointed this week to examine the CIA's interrogation program will revisit long-dormant abuse cases involving the agency's civilian contractors, bringing new attention to a little-known but controversial element of the Bush administration's war on terrorism.

Civilian contractors used by the CIA at secret overseas facilities were accused of detainee abuses and deaths in a series of cases in the years following the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, but only one was ever prosecuted.

The contractors also played a key but secret role in the CIA's interrogations of top Al Qaeda suspects at "black site" prisons overseas.

The new scrutiny will be a central part of the preliminary review by federal prosecutor John H. Durham, according to Justice Department officials and others familiar with the review.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cia27-2009aug27,0,2337525.story

[Solly Mack]

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[No Elephants]

2. Torture is already illegal, tho' we won't prosecute. Privatizing torture needs to be outlawed.