Obama issued the statement ahead of the release of several memos dating from the Bush administration era which authorised the harsh interrogation of detainees by CIA employees.
"It is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the department of justice that they will not be subject to prosecution," he said in Thursday's statement.
Uhm, some other group of people once used that same line of thinking. And it didn't hold much water. Why should it work now?
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Update to Obama = Bush
Al-Jazeera is reporting: "Barack Obama, the US president, has said that intelligence officials who used waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on so-called terrorism suspects will not be prosecuted for their actions.
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