DOJ to investigate deaths of 2 detainees in CIA custody

[babsbunny]

NBC News and news services
updated 1 hour 16 minutes ago

Criminal probe could shed light on spy agency's interrogation techniques after 9/11

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43596191/ns/us_news-security/

NBC News and news services
updated 1 hour 16 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department inquiry into CIA interrogations of terrorist detainees has led to a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two people while they were in custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday.

The attorney general said that he accepted the recommendation of a federal prosecutor, John Durham, who since August, 2009, has conducted an into CIA interrogation practices during the Bush administration. Holder said Durham looked at the treatment of 101 detainees in U.S. custody since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and concluded that only these two deaths required criminal investigation.