"...information known to me warrants opening a preliminary review into whether federal laws were violated in connection with the interrogation of specific detainees at overseas locations. The Department regularly uses preliminary reviews to gather information to determine whether there is sufficient predication to warrant a full investigation of a matter..."

So it's a preliminary review to see if laws were violated, as a means to gather information to determine if there will be a full investigation...


http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/testimony/2009/ag-...
Holder goes on to say:

"I want to emphasize that neither the opening of a preliminary review nor, if evidence warrants it, the commencement of a full investigation, means that charges will necessarily follow."


Which doesn't mean there won't eventually be some kind of prosecutions... but if people want to be fair, his statement doesn't say "we will prosecute"...it does say it is a review to determine if there will be a full investigation though

If people want to be fair, that is