O Secretário da Justiça dos EUA, Eric Holder, indicará um promotor para examinar cerca de 12 casos de possíveis torturas praticadas por agentes da CIA ou por funcionários terceirizados.
Holder deverá indicar John Durham, funcionário de carreira do Departamento de Justiça, de Connecticut, para conduzir o inquérito. Até que enfim...
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects, according to two sources familiar with the move.
Holder is poised to name John Durham, a career Justice Department prosecutor from Connecticut, to lead the inquiry, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the process is not complete.
Durham's mandate, the sources added, will be relatively narrow: to look at whether there is enough evidence to launch a full-scale criminal investigation of current and former CIA personnel who may have broken the law in their dealings with detainees.
Many of the harshest CIA interrogation techniques have not been employed against terrorism suspects for four years or more. At last...
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