TPM:
Of the 24 cases of detainee abuse that the CIA's inspector general and Department of Defense have referred to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution in the last several years, the Department has declined to prosecute in 22 of them, according to a letter from a Justice Department official in response to Sen. Dick Durbin's (D-IL) question about "accountability for illegal conduct by civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan."
A prosecution team was formed in June, 2004 to handle the cases in the U.S. attorney's office for Virginia's Eastern District, and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft announced he'd be referring all pending cases there. While the Defense Department has prosecuted a number of soldiers for abuse, this team was formed to concentrate on abuses by civilian government employees.
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This is getting old we know about the torture and we will pay for it in the future.
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