The pendulum appears to have swung back in the other direction on the issue of criminal investigations into Bush-era torture. It had looked for a while like President Obama’s stated desire to look forward not back had carried the day. But now it appears that Attorney General Eric Holder — independent of his boss’s political concerns, which is how things should work — is leaning back towards initiating a probe. The news was first reported over the weekend by Newsweek, then picked up today by the New York Times and Washington Post.
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