DoJ To Recommend Investigations In Two Detainee Deaths

Marcy Wheeler reports that Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham, assigned by Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate cases in which CIA interrogators may have gone beyond the "legalized" torture guidelines established by the Bush administration's office of Legal Counsel, has recommended investigations of two cases in which detainees died. The original mandate for the investigation was " whether any unauthorized interrogation techniques were used by CIA interrogators, and if so, whether such techniques could constitute violations of the torture statute or any other applicable statute." As Ryan J.