The federal deadline for torture-related obstruction of justice charges against certain CIA personnel expired Monday. That probe is controversial because of claims that the DOJ is covering up wrongdoing by a whitewash investigation of misconduct by CIA and DOJ personnel.
Suspicions arise especially because the investigation has been led since 2008 by John Durham, a career Justice Department prosecutor based in Connecticut. Our Justice Integrity Project (JIP) has revealed that courts have found that Durham was implicated in suppressing evidence in at least two other cases.