FBI’s Catch 22 in Reporting Torture or More DOJ Corruption

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Reps. Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Robert Wexler (D-FL) question FBI Director Robert Mueller about the who’s who among torturers in our government . Mueller said that he “reached out” to The Department of Defense and the Department of Justice because there was evidence these agencies were involved in torture. FBI investigators determined “inappropriate conduct”–a damn clinical description. Mueller pulled his agents out of operations he deemed illegal.

Mueller’s apparent Catch-22 is that the DOD and DOJ were suspected of illegal activity, FBI protocol demands it be reported to the DOJ. As if…as if the DOJ would find fault with itself…AS IF a DOJ created by Bush would find fault with itself.

And not so tangentially from The Raw Story:

The Central Intelligence Agency knew from the beginning that its secret detention and torturous interrogation tactics probably bordered on illegal from the start, according to new documents identified through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.”