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Why a "Gang of Seven" Former CIA Directors Are Trying to Block Holder's Torture Investigation

Ray McGovern, AlterNet. September 21, 2009.

Seven former CIA directors are asking Obama to "reverse Attorney General Holder's August 24 decision to re-open the criminal investigation of CIA interrogations."

Prosecute This: Torture Was Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11

Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. May 1, 2009.

Obama's intent to immunize those who broke the law violates his constitutional duty to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."

Tough Guys Hayden and Mukasey Defend Torture, Decry Release of the OLC Memos: Why They're Wrong

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, AlterNet. April 22, 2009.

Former Bush officials are trying to avoid accountability for their inhumane crimes. There is much you can do to make sure they don't get away with it.

Why Doesn't CIA Director Leon Panetta Want Torture Investigations?

John Sifton, The Daily Beast. April 13, 2009.

Leon Panetta's attempt to suppress the issue of CIA torture is turning Bush's policy into the Obama administration's dirty laundry.

CIA Director 'Fires' Military Contractors From Interrogating Terror Detainees

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 9, 2009.

Leon Panetta said on Thursday that interrogators will be replaced by agency employees and promised that no suspects would be tortured.

CIA Says Destroyed Interrogation Videos Irrelevant to Guantánamo Prisoner Case

Joshua Pantesco, Jurist Legal News and Research. April 17, 2008.

U.S. Government "playing a passive-aggressive version of hide-and-seek," says attorney for Hani Abdullah.

Waterboarding: Two Questions for Michael Hayden

Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. February 7, 2008.

The CIA director admits the U.S. waterboarded detainees, but says it was only done on three. He's lying.