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| US launches crime probe into CIA tactics |
| By theage.com |
| Published: 08/25/2009 |
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THE Obama Administration has launched a criminal investigation into the questioning of terrorism suspects under former US president George Bush. Investigators have revealed threats by CIA interrogators to kill one suspect's children and to force another to watch his mother sexually assaulted. At the same time, President Barack Obama has ordered changes in future interrogations, bringing in agencies besides the CIA under the direction of the FBI and supervised by National Security Adviser James Jones. The Administration pledged questioning would be controlled by the Army Field Manual on interrogation and that the White House would keep its hands off the professional investigators doing the work. The manual, last updated in September 2006, prohibits forcing detainees to be naked, threatening them with dogs, exposing them to extreme heat or cold, conducting mock executions, depriving them of food, water or medical care, and waterboarding. Despite the announcement of the criminal probe, several Obama spokesmen said again that on the subject of detainee interrogation, Mr Obama ''wants to look forward, not back''. A five-year-old report by the CIA's inspector-general, newly declassified and released this week under a federal court order, described severe tactics used by interrogators on terror suspects after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US. Attorney-General Eric Holder said he had chosen a veteran prosecutor to determine whether any CIA officers or contractors should face criminal charges. Former CIA director Michael Hayden, appointed by Mr Bush in 2006, expressed dismay at the prospect of prosecutions. Read More. |
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