FBI- Cleanup in Aisle Gitmo!

I thought this was interesting. It links to some legal statutes regarding torture. Of particular interest is this section: (a) Offense.— Whoever outside the United States commits or attempts to commit torture shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and if death results to any person from conduct prohibited by this subsection, shall be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life. (b) Jurisdiction.— There is jurisdiction over the activity prohibited in subsection (a) if— (1) the alleged offender is a national of the United States; This may have prompted some FBI officials attached to the case to distance themselves from the goings-on: By mid-2002, several former agents and senior bureau officials said, they had begun complaining that the CIA-run interrogation program amounted to torture and was going to create significant problems down the road -- particularly if the Bush administration was ever forced to allow the Al Qaeda suspects to face their accusers in court. . . . Mueller pulled many of the agents back from playing even a supporting role in the interrogations to avoid exposing them to legal jeopardy, in the belief that White House and Justice Department opinions authorizing the coercive techniques might be overturned. 'Those guys were using techniques that we didn't even want to be in the room for,' one senior federal law enforcement official said. 'The CIA determined they were going to torture people, and we made the decision not to be involved." I wonder how much support the operatives would get from an administration that left Scooter Libby to twist in the wind... before pardoning him.