Mr. Holder had already ruled out any charges related to the use of waterboarding and other methods that most human rights experts consider to be torture. His announcement closes a contentious three-year investigation by the Justice Department and brings to an end years of dispute over whether line intelligence or military personnel or their superiors would be held accountable for the abuse of prisoners in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The closing of the two cases means that the Obama administration’s limited effort to scrutinize the counterterrorism programs carried out under President George W. Bush has come to an end. Without elaborating, Mr. Holder suggested that the end of the criminal investigation should not be seen as a moral exoneration of those involved in the prisoners’ treatment and deaths.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/us/holder-rules-out-prosecutions-in-cia-interrogations.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1
Maybe taking a cue from Obama?
Q Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón is considering a lawsuit filed by attorneys representing six Spaniards who were at one point held at Guantanamo. And that lawsuit wants to go after President Bush's legal team. What is your reaction to that?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, you know, obviously I've been very clear that Guantanamo is to be closed, that some of the practices of enhanced interrogation techniques I think ran counter to American values and American traditions. So I've put an end to these policies.
I'm a strong believer that it's important to look forward and not backwards, and to remind ourselves that we do have very real security threats out there.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/white-house-watch/obama-interview-with-cnn-en-es.html
Anybody get prosecuted? Nope. Okay. Well, there was this one case ...
The details in the Senate report on Central Intelligence Agency torture, released today, are shocking. But don't expect anyone to be held responsible. The only person the Obama administration has prosecuted in connection with the torture program is a man who revealed its existence to the media.
https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/12/9/7361667/senate-torture-report-kiriakou
There is no sane reason to believe anyone in the Trump Administration will be prosecuted for anything under a Biden Administration. Real Democrats (the DNC, Bankster class approved types) know that digging into the malfeasance of Republicans might lend credibility to investigating things like, say, the Democratic President who started locking kids in cages at the border or the Democratic President who ordered more assassinations by drone than any other, including a US citizen, without trial or oversight. And we simply can't have that.