A full accounting of the agency's use of torture now appears unlikely, and that's a shame.
A prosecutor assigned to investigate the CIA's use of torture has decided not to recommend further investigation of as many as 100 CIA interrogations of detainees over the last decade. That judgment ensures that there will not be a full accounting of how, when and by whom "enhanced interrogation techniques" were employed to extract information. That is a loss to the nation.The prosecutor, John Durham, did advise the Justice Department to continue an investigation in two cases in which detainees died in custody. But the notable result of his two-year inquiry is to clear interrogators in all of the other cases.
