I confess that my first reaction to the news about Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that he had appointed "a prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA interrogation abuses, including episodes that resulted in prisoner deaths" was about the same as Jim Newell's headline on Wonkette:
VERY LIBERAL ERIC HOLDER TO APPOINT INVESTIGATOR TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER THERE IS ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO TO HAVE AN INVESTIGATION FOR CRIMES, SUCH AS TORTURE, BUT ONLY THE STUFF THAT GEORGE W. BUSH DIDN’T SAY WAS A-OKAY
I expect to see ten Fox News stories over the next couple of days howling that this is an attempt by Obama to "distract." And I expect a dozen gross of stories from the so-called liberal media JUST ASKING "is it fair to ask whether this an attempt by Obama to distract?"
However, I just ran across a somewhat encouraging post by Zachary Roth of TPM that has official statements from several prominent Congressional Democrats (Feingold and Leahy from the Senate and Conyers and Nadler from the House) that express hopes that the investigation will not be as limited as Holder's initial statement indicates.
So, not holding my breath quite yet, but maybe, just maybe …
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