Of the 24 cases of detainee abuse that the CIA’s inspector general and Department of Defense have referred to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution in the last several years, the Department has declined to prosecute in 22 of them, according to a letter from a Justice Department official in response to Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) question about “accountability for illegal conduct by civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=178703