Hoekstra: CIA investigation 'almost double jeopardy'

The House Intelligence Committee's ranking Republican said on Monday that the Justice Department's probe into Bush-era CIA interrogation practices is "almost like double jeopardy."

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) claimed that "career professional" prosecutors in the Bush Justice Department determined that all but one incidence of enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA did not warrant a criminal indictment, rendering the current investigation moot.

"In many cases this is almost like double jeopardy for these folks within the CIA," Hoekstra told MSNBC. "There's no evidence that [the previous decision not to prosecute] was a politicized decision at all."

Under the Constitution, double jeopardy only applies when the government prosecuted an individual for a crime, then litigated the case again. 

The eighth-term congressman asserted that there is "no indication" that the incidents to be investigated warrant prosecution.

In 2006, the Justice Department convicted CIA civilian contractor David Passaro who physically abused terror detainee Abdul Wali. The suspect eventually died from his injuries. 

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