rssDemocrats May Investigate Bush Officials’ Alleged Lies to Congress
Monday, May 04, 2009 at 10:23 am
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Facing staunch Republican opposition to a full-fledged investigation of the Bush administration’s torture policies — whether by an independent commission or an independent prosecutor — some senior Democrats are reportedly considering investigations for whether former Bush officials lied to Congress when they reported on the government’s activities, NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Kelly O’Donnell told Chris Matthews yesterday.
Senior Democrats have told me that they might look at the possibility of were there false statements made to Congress, was there any perjury, when some of the people involved in policy and legal parts of all of that appeared before Congress a few years ago. Now things have been declassified, compare them and see, is there anything there. A different way to go at accountability of the so-called torture memos.
Here’s the video, via Think Progress (after the jump):
3 Comments
Comment posted May 4, 2009 @ 10:08 am
Well thank goodness the democrats have a majority in Congress.
The election certainly changed things in Washington.
We still can't find the guts to investigate torture.
We still have lobbyists flooding and controlling congress.
We still have the NSC via private corporations listening to our conversations.
We still have men including a US citizen imprisoned on a “Kings” say so.
We still hold men denying them their unalienable rights.
We still have the same ol same ol.
Democracy will fail unless we can reestablish honesty, integrity and courage as a governing philosophy. If we (Obama/Holder) don't have the political courage after having been elected with a huge popular vote to do what they and we know is right and just, we will never do it. I doubt we will ever have as good of a chance again in the future.
It appears Obama is afraid of the CIA, seduced by the Military, and a political coward. How else do you explain the refusal to investigate torture, repeal the FISA act allowing spying on Americans and the idea of using military tribunals to provide “justice” to men held too long without charges.
Comment posted May 4, 2009 @ 5:08 pm
Well thank goodness the democrats have a majority in Congress.
The election certainly changed things in Washington.
We still can't find the guts to investigate torture.
We still have lobbyists flooding and controlling congress.
We still have the NSC via private corporations listening to our conversations.
We still have men including a US citizen imprisoned on a “Kings” say so.
We still hold men denying them their unalienable rights.
We still have the same ol same ol.
Democracy will fail unless we can reestablish honesty, integrity and courage as a governing philosophy. If we (Obama/Holder) don't have the political courage after having been elected with a huge popular vote to do what they and we know is right and just, we will never do it. I doubt we will ever have as good of a chance again in the future.
It appears Obama is afraid of the CIA, seduced by the Military, and a political coward. How else do you explain the refusal to investigate torture, repeal the FISA act allowing spying on Americans and the idea of using military tribunals to provide “justice” to men held too long without charges.
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