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Article Image Ray McGovern: My Take

Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision not to prosecute CIA torturers in two high-profile homicides bows to the political difficulty of going after field agents while sparing superiors, including ex-President George W. Bush. But the all-clear on tor

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Comment by Iqbal Faizer
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Thank you for writing this article. Not only is it terrible that Obama is allowing crimes of the Bush years to go unpunished and for those under him to continue in the same, if not worse, vein. Moreover, I've read in the last month or so that Obama is now prosecuting those courageous CIA leakers who tried to tell the media about those violating the law and the Geneva Conventions under Bush's reign. As Daniel Ellsberg says, Obama is legalizing torture and criminalizing attempts to reveal such illegal activity. Obama is an evil man. 


Comment by Vanessa de St-Blanqu
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This is not new!  Remember:  Orlando Letelier, his assistant Ronni Moffitt (her husband was also injured)  were both killed by a bomb in Washington DC September 21, 1976.  The work of Michael Townley, from the CIA, General Manuel Contreras and Pedro Espinoza, both from the DINA.  Witness protection stepped in...  I only know this because of my ties with Chile - the whole thing was buried in the back pages of newspapers and no one ever seemed shocked - IN THE MIDDLE OF WASHINGTON, DC!!!

 

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