Sen Whitehouse: TORTURE PROBE SHOULD LOOK AT BUSH OFFICIALS [View All]

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This would be a routine criminal matter if the targets weren't former high government officials.
Whitehouse: Torture Probe Should Look At Bush Officials
Zachary Roth | September 1, 2009, 10:01AM

Sheldon Whitehouse

August 31, 2009

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Another top Democrat has come out in support of the view that the torture investigation announced by the Justice Department shouldn't be limited to CIA personnel.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a former federal prosecutor who sits on the Judiciary committee, suggested in an article http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202433420756&Official_torture=&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&pt&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1 for the National Law Journal that the probe should extend to:

...the former vice president of the United States, his counsel David Addington, Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) lawyer John Yoo and their private contractors Bruce Jessen and Jim Mitchell, psychologists who designed the torture program.

Whitehouse continued:

In America, high office does not put one outside the law. Indeed, it borders on unethical for a prosecutor to refuse to investigate the corpus delicti of a crime because of concern as to where the evidence may lead.

more:
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202433420756&Official_torture=&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&pt&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1

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