Again from Today's Papers:
The Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Washington Post lead with the Justice Department documents released by the Obama administration that provide the most detailed accounting to date of the harsh interrogation tactics used by the Central Intelligence Agency during the Bush administration, as well as the legal reasoning to back them up. At the same time, the administration made it clear that CIA officers who followed the guidelines would not be prosecuted. The four memos, one from 2002 and three from 2005, spell out in painstaking detail the techniques that could be used to get information from prisoners.
Some groups, the ACLU most notably, are upset about the refusal to prosecute lower level CIA officials, but isn't this a way for Obama to solidify not only support from the CIA rank and file, but to guarantee that they follow his directives? If they are prosecuted, doesn't it make it more likely that orders will be second guessed habitually?
