More Pressure for Bush Torture Probe

“We need to follow this thing into those dense weeds and shine a bright light into what was done,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, said in a speech at Brown University on Saturday. “We can paper it over if we choose, but the blueprint is still lying there for others to do it all over again. It’s important that we not let this moment pass.”

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 2, 2009

Leopold reports on statements by Senator Whitehouse and others that suggests congress is moving to prosecute Bush administration criminals for torture crimes.

If the justice department does not prosecute these people expeditiously, Congress should proceed independently.

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by Kenneth Sibbett - Feb. 3, 2009

Just more evidence thats needed to bolster the already mountainous charge's against the Bush/Cheney Admin,.I believe waiting for the stimulus package to get passed, will get the inquiry started.If theres going to be one.

I can't help thinking something was already decided before Bush left office, or Bush would have had a blanket pardon for everyone involved. Puzzling.

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