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Top spies past and present campaigned Wednesday to discredit the Senate’s investigation into the CIA’s harrowing torture practices after 9/11, battling to define the historical record and deter potential legal action around the world.
“The Senate intelligence committee’s report doesn’t urge prosecution for wrongdoing, and the Justice Department has no interest in reopening a criminal probe,” the Associated Press reports. “But the threat to former interrogators and their superiors was underlined as a U.N. special investigator demanded those responsible for ‘systematic crimes’ be brought to justice, and human rights groups pushed for the arrest of key CIA and Bush administration figures if they travel overseas.”
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