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GOP Senators Urge Holder Not to Appoint Special Prosecutor on Torture

By Emily Pierce
Roll Call Staff
Aug. 19, 2009, 2:47 p.m.

Nine GOP Senators cautioned Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday against appointing a special prosecutor to investigate alleged torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of American intelligence agents and contractors.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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