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...whether to prosecute. "They worked carefully and thoroughly, sometimes taking years to decide if prosecution was warranted or not," Mr. Panetta wrote, in reference to the criminal prosecutors from the Justice Department. At the agency, the...

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...tried but failed to head off the new inquiry. The White House said Friday that it had no comment on the letter from the former C.I.A. directors and referred questions to the Justice Department. "The attorney general's decision to order a...

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...of the workforce. Director Panetta touched on the Justice Department's investigation of allegations that the CIA, under the Bush administration, broke the law in carrying out certain intense interrogation techniques. "I don't question the...

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...when he visited the CIA on April 20. Against the advice of Panetta and other intelligence professionals, he had decided to release the text of Justice Department legal memos on interrogation, which showed in ugly detail that the agency had...

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...secrets By Eli Lake, Sara A. Carter THE WASHINGTON TIMES Besieged by leaks of several closely held secrets, the CIA has asked the Justice Department to examine what it regards as the criminal disclosure of a secret program to kill foreign...

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...is the president's position, too," he said. Panetta said some CIA officers have been disciplined for going beyond the methods approved for interrogations by the Bush-era Justice Department. Just one CIA employee -- contractor David...

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...he took office in January. Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, on Monday defended the organisation's interrogation techniques and noted that the DoJ and Congress had had several years to study the dossier. Mr Obama has stated his wish to...

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...tirade during a meeting with a senior White House staff member over the Holder review. The CIA, argued Panetta, has been routinely referring cases that might have crossed the legal line to the Justice Department for possible prosecution, so...

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...respond to a request for comment. CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said the agency is cooperating with the Justice Department review "in part to see that they move as expeditiously as possible." "The director has stood up for those who...

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