“Attorney General Holder’s decision to appoint a special prosecutor to re-examine a number of cases of alleged torture and abuse is another sign that the Administration’s ‘don’t look back’ policy is being reassessed,” said Frank Donaghue, PHR CEO. “We first saw this welcome reconsideration in July when the President ordered his national security team to gather the facts about the alleged Dasht-e-Leili massacre in Afghanistan in 2001.”
The CIA Inspector General’s report released on August 24 details many of the potentially criminal abuses perpetrated by CIA interrogators and provides clear justification for the Attorney General’s decision to appoint a special prosecutor to review these alleged abuses and to determine the degree to which full investigations are warranted. “The preliminary review by the special prosecutor should only be seen as a first step to eventual investigation not only of those who conducted the actual interrogation but of those higher level officials who designed, authorized, and supervised the global torture regime,” said Donaghue. “Any investigation must also look at the role health professionals played in facilitating torture.”
Rights Group Applauds Appointment of Prosecutor in CIA Torture Cases
(I work for Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).)
Source: physiciansforhumanrights.org
