The Washington Independent, April 23, 2009 by Daphne Eviatar
http://washingtonindependent.com/40163/pressure-mounts-for-enhanced-interrogation-prosecutions

“There’s still a lot we don’t know, about how this all took place, how this went up and down the chain of command,” said Blum. “Based on what we know now, it would indicate that the Department of Justice would be derelict in its duties to not follow the evidence where it might lead and initiate some sort of criminal investigation. Both of those who perpetrated it and those who ordered it — the relationship between the lawyers who were assisting part of a criminal conspiracy. Because that’s what we’re talking about here. A criminal conspiracy to violate the U.S. law against torture.”

Washington Independent, Dec. 8, 2008 by Daphne Eviatar
http://washingtonindependent.com/21313/21313

Carolyn Patty Blum, emeritus professor at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law [and] a consultant to the International Center for Transitional Justice, which specializes in accountability for human-rights abuses, disagrees. “[Our] institutional experience working with truth commissions around the world is that the opposite happens. Once people feel they are already protected, they don’t have any incentive to come forward.”