The CIA says it is shutting down its system of secret prisons where torture was carried out, but Director Leon Panetta said that CIA officers who participated in Bush-era abuses “should not be investigated, let alone punished.”

I guess that means Mark Swanner is off the hook.

David Kurtz

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