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CIA nominee Panetta: 'We've got to move forward'
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The man nominated to head the CIA, Leon Panetta, says it's time for the agency to move ahead, not to dwell on the harsh treatment of foreign detainees in the previous administration.
Panetta is appearing in his second day before the Senate Intelligence Committee. He told senators Friday that he doesn't intend to "to go to the past."
Panetta will oversee the end of "enhanced" interrogation and the closure of secret CIA jails. But he says the Obama administration will not prosecute those who participated, because they were acting on the legal authority of the Justice Department.
Panetta says those who were following the legal opinions provided by the Justice Department at that time shouldn't be investigated or prosecuted.
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