Will this agency ever be brought under control? It is noted in the Virginian Pilot on 4/10/09 that the CIA will "completely close secret prisons abroad". Leon Panetta-the director-says that CIA officials "should not be investigated, let alone punished"; the reason being that the Justice Department under Bush "declared their actions legal". Why then did we punish the non-commissioned officers at Abu Ghraib prison for their actions? A number are in jail now, to my knowledge. "Waterboarding" is torture. It was torture when done to John McCain in Vietnam, it is torture today when done to detainees at these secret "black sites" of the CIA. Not all of those we have held are guilty of anything; some most certainly are, but how is one to know if no trial was ever held to determine guilt. Dick Cheney endorsed this "enhanced interrogation procedure" and it is recognized as torture by the US Constitution and international law. Why is he not being tried for his crimes against humanity?
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