From Yahoo News/AP:
WASHINGTON – Seeking to move beyond what he calls a "a dark and painful chapter in our history," President Barack Obama said Thursday that CIA officials who used harsh interrogation tactics during the Bush administration will not be prosecuted.
The government also released four memos long held secret by the Bush administration in which its lawyers approved in extensive and often graphic detail the tough interrogation methods used against 28 terror suspects, the fullest and now complete government accounting of the techniques. The rough tactics range from waterboarding — simulated drowning — to using a plastic neck collar to slam detainees into walls.
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More News On The CIA
Obama Rules Out Charging C.I.A. Agents in Interrogations -- New York Times
Obama: No Charges Against CIA Officials for Harsh Treatment of Detainees -- Voice Of America
Obama Releases Torture Memos, Vows Not to Prosecute -- Wired News
FACTBOX: Waterboarding and other interrogation methods -- Reuters
Did Obama/Holder Really Grant Immunity? -- The Atlantic
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