by Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane August 24, 2009 WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. named a veteran federal prosecutor on Monday to examine abuse of prisoners held by the Central Intelligence Agency, after the Justice Department released a long-secret report showing interrogators choked a prisoner repeatedly and threatened to kill another detainee’s children.

A long-awaited report on post-9/11 interrogation tactics will reveal harrowing new details about treatment of suspected terrorists. by Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff August 21, 2009 A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency’s inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock executions as part of the agency’s post-9/11 program to detain and [...]