Mr. Durham, recall, is the special prosecutor appointed in 2008 by then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey to investigate allegations that the CIA had illegally destroyed videotapes of CIA detainee interrogations. The prosecutor’s mandate was expanded in 2009 by current Attorney General Eric Holder to look into allegations that CIA officers and contractors had abused and, in some cases, tortured and killed, as many as 101 detainees thought to have been in U.S. custody. …
Mr. Holder underscored that Mr. Durham had “fully examined a broad universe of allegations from multiple sources.” He noted that Mr. Durham had found that some of the 101 detainees had never been in CIA custody to begin with. …
To the army of the obsessed who take it as a given that the Bush administration operated a vast torture archipelago, all this amounts to a giant government whitewash, bordering almost on conspiracy. If that’s true, it must rank as the most politically incompetent and ideologically bizarre whitewash in history. Who knew Team Obama was shilling for Dick Cheney? And what about Mr. Durham: Was he part of the whitewash, too?
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