the claim that the industry has been fracking for 60 years is true but grossly misleading as the current practice involving horizontal drilling and in
general aggressive techniques to extract gas from marginal resources only dates back to the 1990s; rather than millions of well using fracking, current practice has only been tested over a few tens of thousands of wells
As Bloomberg reports, President Obama is now saying that it's up to Attorney
General Eric Holder and the current Justice Department to decide whether to prosecute Bush administration officials, including the lawyers, for authorizing the CIA's use of
aggressive interrogation
techniques.