Eric Holder denounces torture at Senate confirmation hearing

President-elect Obama is expected to issue an order to close GITMO as early as his first day in office, although he says that actually closing down the detention facility may take months. During his Senate confirmation hearing today, Obama's nominee for Attorney General Eric Holder said that some prisoners will be released and other will be prosecuted – but that a third group cannot be prosecuted and are still considered dangerous.  Holder also indicated significant reversals from the previous Attorneys General under the Bush Administration, Holder made it clear that waterboarding is torture. Eric Holder also said that the United States will comply with standards of humane treatment outlined in international law – another reversal from current US policy. Washington Editor Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.

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