It was May 14, 2009 at the House Judiciary Committee in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building when this question was asked of Attorney General Eric Holder:
Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott of Virginia: And finally under torture: We’ve heard in the public discourse that, “it worked,” “we were scared,” “we were following orders,” which frankly might have been illegal. We know from after World War II that we tried and prosecuted as capital offenses a Japanese soldiers that tortured American soldiers and we prosecuted them as capital offenses. If detainees were tortured to death is it possible that no one committed a crime?
Attorney General Eric Holder: If somebody were tortured to death clearly a crime would have occurred.
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Now read:
AP INVESTIGATION: Details in CIA detainee’s death
By ADAM GOLDMAN and KATHY GANNON, Associated Press Writers Adam Goldman And Kathy Gannon, Associated Press Writers 2 hrs 54 mins ago
WASHINGTON – More than seven years ago, a suspected Afghan militant was brought to a dimly lit CIA compound northeast of the airport in Kabul. The CIA called it the Salt Pit. Inmates knew it as the dark prison.
Inside a chilly cell, the man was shackled and left half-naked. He was found dead, exposed to the cold, in the early hours of Nov. 20, 2002.
