Holder says CIA prison probe winding down
The Justice Department’s investigation into the deaths of two detainees in CIA custody, including one who died at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, is winding down, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. signaled Thursday.
In testimony before a House committee, Holder said the controversial probe “has run its course. We are at a point where we are about to close those investigations.’’ He did not say whether CIA operatives would face criminal charges, and Justice Department officials declined to elaborate.
Prosecutors often use such terminology to describe investigations that are not expected to yield charges. If the probe is indeed ended, it would close the book on inquiries that examined the harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects and related matters — one of the George W. Bush administration’s most fraught legacies.
Holder announced in late June that the department had opened a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two detainees. He did not cite the cases, but U.S. officials said they involved an Afghan, Gul Rahman, who died in 2002 at a prison known as the Salt Pit in Afghanistan, and an Iraqi, Manadel al-Jamadi, who was questioned by three CIA officers at Abu Ghraib in 2003.
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