rssMuch More on the New Church Committee
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 2:01 pm
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Through the wonders of Twitter, Nick Schwellenbach sends along this piece he wrote way way back in 2007 about the need for a new Church committee. Consider it valuable background for my piece today. Basically, Nick argued, don’t look to the courts to save you:
After years of congressional acquiescence to the executive in many matters, we’re starting to see some awakening and hard questioning. However, there is a paucity of publicly-revealed oversight of intelligence agencies and whether or not their activities have violated or chilled the rights of Americans. Many have turned to the courts as a last resort. But even when they have the stomach to do so the courts on their own are not equipped to undertake large-scale investigations of public policy significance—that’s the province of Congress and one reason why it exists in the first place.
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Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 6:42 pm
“the courts on their own are not equipped to undertake large-scale investigations of public policy significance— that’s the province of Congress”
Exactly! But any investigation done by Congress must of necessity
Not Have A Narrow Focus.
It Must be authorized to go into any of the allegations against any/all of those in the Bush-Cheney Administration that are said to have violated Federal Laws or our Constitution.
A Narrow Focus will cause the investigation to be over before it starts.
If HJC Chairman Conyers does not soon start hearings in his Committee on the crimes of the Bush Administration
WE Must Call For His Resignation.
SIGN THE PETITIONS
Demanding
both a Commission of Inquiry
and a Special Prosecutor
For All Their Crimes
at ANGRYVOTERS.ORG
We must hang in there…
or our children or grandchildren may
be tortured and imprisoned without cause because of our failure.
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