Mr. Mansfield said the agency had provided Defense Department investigators with documents including "copies of C.I.A. guidance to its officers in Iraq regarding interrogations and debriefings".
As the New York Times reported Thursday, dissident members of the professional mental health community allege that a government researcher contributed language to a 2005 APA policy regarding interrogations.
The report by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding CIA interrogation essentially accuses the agency under George W. Bush of war criminality.
Two weeks ago, the Justice Department declassified four memos regarding the interrogation techniques approved by the Bush Administration and used by the C.I.A. with senior level Al Qaeda members.
When he expanded Mr. Durham's mandate, Mr. Holder also stressed that the Justice Department would "not prosecute anyone who acted in good faith and within the scope of the legal guidance given by the Office of Legal Counsel regarding the interrogation of detainees".
The department "will not prosecute anyone who acted in good faith and within the scope of the legal guidance given by the Office of Legal Counsel regarding the interrogation of detainees". Staff writer Carrie Johnson and staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.
This came several days after Mr Obama appointed a bipartisan commission on the deficit, albeit with not many powers.The Justice Department released documents from its lengthy inquiry into the ethics of advice given to the Bush administration regarding the interrogation of terrorism suspects.
Policies regarding detention, interrogation, rendition, and domestic surveillance were developed behind closed doors by a small, select group of officials.
"Drs. Mitchell and Jessen had no authority to establish policy or procedure, or make independent decisions regarding the interrogation program," Hubbard said in the August 19 , 2012email to Hawkins, whose group at the time was conducting an independent review of the CIA program.
