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New Calls For Bush War Criminals To Face Justice
By Mick Meaney
OpEdNews Op Eds 3/9/2013 at 19:07:47

A UN investigator has requested that the United States reveal its findings on the CIA's Bush-era programme of the rendition and secret detention of terrorism suspects, which has the potential to lead to high-level officials being prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

A US Senate select committee on intelligence investigated the CIA's secret detention and interrogation programme and examined use of highly controversial torture methods including waterboarding.

The panel is believed to have been given unrestricted access to classified information, and completed its review in December 2011.

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The Department of Justice has so far protected Bush era war criminals by refusing to prosecute any official "who acted in good faith and within the scope of legal guidance given by its Office of Legal Counsel", according to US Attorney General Eric Holder.