Ryan Reilly reports: Assistant United States Attorney John Durham is close to completing a preliminary review of whether there is evidence that CIA agents
“„Assistant United States Attorney John Durhamis close to completing a preliminary review of whether there is evidence that CIA agents violated the law when they used brutal methods to interrogate terror detainees, Attorney General Eric Holdersaid in speech Thursday night.
“„Holder, speaking in a question and answer session after his remarks at the University of the District of Columbia Law School, said Durham is ”close to the end of the time that he needs and will be making some recommendations to me.” Holder’s comments were his fullest status report to date on the one of the Justice Department’s most politically sensitive inquiries.
“„Of course, if there are prosecutable cases, and Holder chooses to pursue any of them, the GOP will paint the whole effort as a witch hunt against the CIA. That point if view is likely to draw more attention than the opposite one from the left, which is that the investigation didn’t go far enough in that it did not include those administration officials who authorized torture to begin with.