Attorney General Holder Appoints Prosecutor To Investigate CIA Interrogation While "Intelligence Officials" Say CIA Director Pannetta Is Livid

The Washington Post reports that Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed "a prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA interrogation abuses... Holder has named longtime prosecutor John H. Durham, who has parachuted into crisis situations for both political parties over three decades, to open an early review of nearly a dozen cases of alleged detainee mistreatment at the hands of CIA interrogators and contractors. The announcement raised fresh tensions in an intelligence community fearful that it will bear the brunt of the punishment for Bush-era national security policy, and it immediately provoked criticism from congressional Republicans."

ABC reports that "according to intelligence officials, Panetta erupted in a tirade last month during a meeting with a senior White House staff member. Panetta was reportedly upset over plans by Attorney General Eric Holder to open a criminal investigation of allegations that CIA officers broke the law in carrying out certain interrogation techniques that President Obama has termed 'torture.'" Tweet