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has this been reported on much?

President Obama will not ask Attorney General Eric Holder to end his investigation into CIA interrogation methods conducted under the Bush Administration. At a meeting with families of 9/11 victims, held after his visit to Ground Zero, the president denied the request of Debra Burlingame to ask Holder to stop the probe.

Burlingame's brother was the pilot of AA Flight 77, hijacked and forced into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. An attorney, Burlingame has been critical of the administration at times, and clearly disagrees with Holder's decision to investigate the CIA's interrogation methods.

Burlingame told the president she understood he could not tell Holder what to do, but continued,

"... that shouldn't stop you from offering your opinion. After all, we wouldn't be here celebrating today if they hadn't done their job,,,And they have the hammer of a possible indictment over their heads. Can't you at least give him your opinion?"

The president said he wouldn't, "And he turned around and walked away."

The enhanced interrogation debate rages on, especially after the bin-Laden killing. The White House insists that "no single bit of information was a deciding factor," but it is clear that the interrogation methods used yielded information leading to his whereabouts. Without that, would we have found and killed him?

Another head-scratcher might be that it seems killing bin-Laden was fine, and cause for great celebration, but waterboarding those who had information about him was not.

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They talked about this last night on Fox and I think CNN.  Eric Holder needs to be fired though.

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yeah, but obama could take care of all that with one conversation. yet he turned his back on this lady, and simply walked away. how disgraceful! to take ALL of the credit for bin laden's death, and then turn a blind eye to the persecution of those who really helped facilitate it?

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This reminds me of those 2 border control agents who were arrested a few years ago for shooting an illegal.  I forget the details but it seems to me the illegal was a smuggler or something.  Did those agents ever get released?