In his first public comments on Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to launch an inquiry into Bush-era interrogations of terror suspects, U.S. President Barack Obama said he doesn't want to see any "witch hunts" but won't interfere with the Justice Department's efforts to enforce the law. "I trust career prosecutors to be judicious. I've made clear both publicly and privately that I have no interest in witch hunts," Obama said on CNN's "State of the Union" during a round of television talk show interviews aired Sunday. "But, ultimately, the law is the law, and we don't go around sort of picking and choosing how we approach it."
On Friday, seven former CIA directors sent Obama a letter asking him to order Holder to reverse his decision to assign a federal prosecutor to re-examine a series of cases of alleged prisoner abuse which the Justice Department declined to prosecute during the Bush Administration.
Obama politely brushed aside that request, while expressing respect for the ex-CIA chiefs who warned that the new inquiry could devastate morale at the spy agency.
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