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cal04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 09:36 PM
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Double Jeopardy for CIA Interrogators?
Some Interrogators Facing Potential Criminal Prosecution Have Already Been Disciplined by the CIA, According to Officials
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8074481&page=1

Some of the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogators now facing potential criminal prosecution for how they interrogated alleged terrorists have already been disciplined by the CIA, according to officials familiar with the matter.

The CIA's disciplinary actions were taken in the 2004-05 time frame, after the Justice Department reviewed a still-classified CIA inspector general report on the agency's interrogation program.

At the time, career Department of Justice prosecutors in the eastern district of Virginia decided not to prosecute the CIA interrogators, referring their cases back to the agency for possible non-legal disciplinary action.

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After the Justice Department decided against prosecuting these cases in 2004, the CIA accountability board reviewed the inspector general report and decided to slap an administrative punishment on some of the interrogators. Officials would not say what the punishments were, nor how many individuals were punished.
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Doc_Technical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 09:41 PM
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1. This sort of thing has been going on forever.
"I'll take 'used then thrown under the bus' for $500. Alex."
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MannyGoldstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 09:56 PM
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2. Disciplinary action probably isn't criminal prosecution
I don't see how it's double jeopardy.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:00 PM
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3. So long as the punishment is "administrative" it's not technically double jeopardy.
Kinda like nonjudicial punishment in the military. It's not judicial, after all. You don't HAVE to take it in most situations, but if you refuse it, is that courts martial going to be an easy row to hoe?
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