Not Bad From Holder: Appoints To A Special Prosecutor To Go After CIA Little Ones......But The Big Ones Too? Nah

A lot on the right won't be happy when they see this

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects, according to two sources familiar with the move.

I guess those Blackwater reports of lately from the Nation's Jeremy Scahill and just other things could have possibly pushed this, but maybe that's because I liked Scahill a heck of a lot as a great journalist.

A special prosecutor indeed is a step, and this is a big development. But we shall see what happens here. And interesting that this news breaks on the day of vacation week starting for the President now.

And notice in that article how Carrie Johnson, the writer of the linked article, continues to used "enhanced interrogation." Tisk, tisk, tisk.

Most in the status quo media still won't call it the "T" word (torture) like they should.

Update: Greg makes a key point and observation here

The key revelation in the story, I think, is the part where anonymous sources say the probe’s mandate will be “narrow”:

Durham’s mandate, the sources added, will be relatively narrow: to look at whether there is enough evidence to launch a full-scale criminal investigation of current and former CIA personnel who may have broken the law in their dealings with detainees. Many of the harshest CIA interrogation techniques have not been employed against terrorism suspects for four years or more.

This prosecutor will only look at whether there’s evidence to proceed with a criminal probe of those who may have broken the law in dealings with detainees. In other words, only the conduct of low-level alleged rogue torturers will be looked at here.