rssLeahy Announces Hearing Next Week on Truth Commission
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 3:15 pm
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Picking up on the controversial proposal he made during a Feb. 9 speech at Georgetown University, Sen.Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) today reiterated his call for a “truth commission” on the Senate floor and said the Senate Judiciary Committee would hold a hearing next Wednesday to begin to consider the idea.
Noting both the pressures to leave the past behind on one hand, but also to prosecute Bush officials on the other, Leahy reiterated his call for a “middle ground” that would involve the “formation of a commission of inquiry dedicated to finding out what happened.” This is “not for the purpose of criminal indictments, but to assemble the facts, to know what happened, and to make sure mistakes are not repeated.” He reminded the senators that a recent Gallup poll found that more than 62 percent of Americans polled favored some sort of investigation of criminal activity by the Bush administration.
“I’ve seen what’s happened before with prosecutions,” added Leahy, clearly anticipating some objections from the left. “We don’t find the whole truth, but prosecute those on the way bottom of the chain of command.”
Noting that former Vice President Dick Cheney has continued to defend the Bush administration’s tactics, including torture, Leahy said: “We need an independent inquiry that’s beyond reproach and outside of partisan politics.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), spoke afterward in support of Leahy’s proposal.
Under the previous administration, Whitehouse said, “we saw U.S. attorneys fired for political reasons, the civil rights division run amok, we saw theories that the president can secretly ignore his own executive orders, and saw those office of legal counsel memos approving interrogation techniques long understood and long known to be torture.”
“If we blind ourselves to this history, we deny ourselves these lessons,” he continued. “We cannot set aside our responsibility to take an accounting of where we are, what was done and what must now be repaired.”
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Comment posted February 25, 2009 @ 12:55 pm
I for one certainly would like to see Mr. Cheney hung out to dry. I believe he and Mr. G.W. Bush used their offices for the purpose of personally increasing their own wealth. Mr. Cheney's directly connected to Haliburton and was also linked to Enron, I would like to know the whole truth about how much money he, Cheney made on the Iraq war. We can no longer hold our heads high as Americans with people like these going unpunished for their crimes and misdeeds!
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Comment posted February 27, 2009 @ 12:32 am
Truth Commission my butt. Just a backdoor for the criminals. Thanks a lot, Leahy and AIPAC!
Comment posted February 28, 2009 @ 1:58 pm
some people say leahy's truth commission is not strong enough, they call it a backdoor for criminals to run out of. i disagree. there will be prosecutions on people who do not willingly testify and on people who lie and are found to perjure. this might be the only way to get at the truth. The problems of the past could be repeated if they are not investigated, people… The (c)ommission “report” on the horrible events of seven and a half years ago do not address things that could not be crammed into their official cereal box version of what happened. Read D.R.Griffin's books on it or watch some videos available on youtube or netflx, anyone with an open mind will soon see that the truth about these events is not what the official story purports it to be. we must try to prevent this type of thing from happening again, we must try to prevent the loss of innocent loss of life from ever happening on our soil and hopeful in the world, again. We are all one people, and all connected, even though most people may not perceive that. when we hurt each other we are simply hurting ourself…
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