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Panetta Right to Defend CIA Interrogators, by Edwin Meese III and Hans A. von Spakovsky

Score one for the case officers targeted by President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder's reinvestigation of interrogators that the Department of Justice previously decided shouldn't be prosecuted. CIA Director Leon Panetta says he will use agency funds to pay for their legal defense.

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