Well when the administration is failing on so many points you need, well a distraction.

“Reporting from Washington — U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, current and former U.S. government officials said.

A senior Justice Department official said that Holder envisioned an inquiry that would be narrow in scope, focusing on “whether people went beyond the techniques that were authorized” in Bush administration memos that liberally interpreted anti-torture laws.

Current and former CIA and Justice Department officials who have firsthand knowledge of the interrogation files contend that criminal convictions will be difficult to obtain because the quality of evidence is poor and the legal underpinnings have never been tested.

Some cases have not previously been disclosed, including an instance in which a CIA operative brought a gun into an interrogation booth to force a detainee to talk, officials said.

Other potentially criminal abuses have already come to light, including the waterboarding of prisoners in excess of Justice Department guidelines, and the deaths of detainees in CIA custody in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2002 and 2003.

Opening a criminal investigation is something Holder “has come reluctantly to consider,” the Justice Department official said, emphasizing that Holder had not reached a final decision but noting that, “as attorney general, he has the obligation to follow the law.”

He also has the power of discretion, which we know from the fugitive Marc Rich case he has a decided lack there of. Indeed I would think that there should have been an investigation of Holder over that case, as well as the just dismissed Black Panther case.

Holder is a political hack and has no business being the chief law enforcement of this country, many members of the DOJ have similar feelings.

Nevertheless the damage this will have to national security would be more egregious than the suspected crimes. From the report we know it has.

“Bracing for the worst, a small number of CIA officials have put off plans to retire or leave the agency so that they can maintain their access to classified files and be in a better position to defend against a Justice investigation.

“Once you’re out, it gets a lot harder,” said a retired CIA official who said he had spoken recently with former colleagues. The inquiry would probably also target private contractors who worked for the CIA during the interrogations.”

I can tell you from a few conversations I’ve had with agency members that this will also damper – as it already has – aggressive efforts to keep this nation safe. We’re not surprised by this, indeed it’s the way it was under the Clinton Administration when brick walls were erected everywhere. I’m afraid it’s now just a matter of time before this all produces another attack, or even attacks on our soil.