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Justice, CIA clash over probe of interrogator IDs
At odds over photos shown to detainees at Gitmo
By Bill Gertz
The CIA and Justice Department are fighting over a secret investigation
into a controversial program by legal supporters of Islamist terrorists
held at Guantanamo Bay that involved photographing CIA interrogators
and showing the pictures to prisoners, an effort CIA officials say
threatens the officers' lives.
The dispute prompted a meeting Tuesday at CIA headquarters
between U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald and senior CIA
counterintelligence officials. It is the latest battle between the
agency and the department over detainees and interrogations of
terrorists.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. angered many CIA officials
and Republicans in Congress by reopening an investigation last August
into whether CIA interrogators acted illegally in questioning senior al
Qaeda detainees.
According to U.S. officials familiar with the issue, the
current dispute involves Justice Department officials who support an
effort led by the American Civil Liberties Union to provide legal aid
to military lawyers for the Guantanamo inmates. CIA counterintelligence
officials oppose the effort and say giving terrorists photographs of
interrogators has exposed CIA personnel and their families to possible
terrorist attacks.
As part of the disagreement, a senior Justice Department
national security official removed himself from the counterintelligence
probe last week after opposing CIA security worries.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/15/justice-cia-clash-over-probe-of-interrogator-ids/