Rights groups decry DOJ decision

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The ACLU on Thursday said the Justice Department's decision to close probes of CIA interrogations without charges is "yet another entry in what is already a shameful record.”

“That the Justice Department will hold no one accountable for the killing of prisoners in CIA custody is nothing short of a scandal,” ACLU deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer said in a statement. “The Justice Department has declined to bring charges against the officials who authorized torture, the lawyers who sought to legitimate it, and the interrogators who used it. It has successfully shut down every legal suit meant to hold officials civilly liable.

"Continuing impunity threatens to undermine the universally recognized prohibition on torture and other abusive treatment and sends the dangerous signal to government officials that there will be no consequences for their use of torture and other cruelty. Today's decision not to file charges against individuals who tortured prisoners to death is yet another entry in what is already a shameful record.”