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President Obama Should Pardon CIA Interrogators

Brian2580 Wrote: Aug 31, 2009 8:54 PM
"Tinsldr2
Location: GA
Reply # 2
Date: Aug 31, 2009 - 8:43 PM EST
US never had a torture program
Did we drill in anyones body? Behead them? Shoot them and make others watch? Kill their kids? Drown them? Whip them on a Rack? "

Brian: There are nearly 100 detainees who have died in U.S. custody. 12 of them died as a result of interrogations.

When he served as deputy attorney general, now Attorney General Eric Holder gave a "neutral leaning positive" recommendation that led to President Bill Clinton's pardoning of gazillionaire fugitive Marc Rich, who was on the lam in Switzerland hiding from federal charges of fraud, evading more than $48 million in taxes, racketeering and trading oil with Iran in violation of a U.S. embargo.

Holder also had a role in the 1999 Clinton pardons of 16 Puerto Rico independence terrorists -- members of the bomb-happy FALN or the splinter group Los Macheteros -- who had been convicted on such charges as...

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