Justice Dept. Report Advises Pursuing C.I.A. Abuse Cases - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s ethics office has recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, potentially exposing Central Intelligence Agency employees and contractors to prosecution for brutal treatment of terrorism suspects, according to a person officially briefed on the matter.

In examples that have just come to light, the C.I.A. report describes how C.I.A. officers carried out mock executions and threatened at least one prisoner with a gun and a power drill. It is a violation of the federal torture statute to threaten a prisoner with imminent death.


Such cases should be referred for prosecution. What's this world coming to? How could this have happened? Oh - well then again, NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!