Whose scope will be narrow, says the LA Times:

U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, current and former U.S. government officials said.

A senior Justice Department official said that Holder envisioned an inquiry that would be narrow in scope, focusing on "whether people went beyond the techniques that were authorized" in Bush administration memos that liberally interpreted anti-torture laws.

Current and former CIA and Justice Department officials who have firsthand knowledge of the interrogation files contend that criminal convictions will be difficult to obtain because the quality of evidence is poor and the legal underpinnings have never been tested.

Certainly good that Holder wants to follow the law - and important that interrogators themselves won't be shielded from investigation.

But too bad the policy authors aren't mentioned. Maybe the evidence against them is too weak, or the politics of investigating a previous administration are too thorny. Either way, lawyers shouldn't enjoy de facto immunity simply because accountability is hard work.