To Investigate or Not - Four Ways to Look Back at Bush

New York Times by Scott Shane | Feb. 22, 2009 (News Analysis)

Two days after his re-election in 1864, with Union victory in the Civil War assured, Abraham Lincoln stood at a White House window to address a boisterous crowd of supporters. He spoke of the lessons of the nation’s calamitous recent history.

“In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong; as silly and as wise; as bad and as good,” Lincoln said. “Let us, therefore, study the ... Full Story »

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 by Chris Rocco - Feb. 24, 2009

The 911 commission drew generally positive reviews??? Mr. Shane fails to note that the 911 commission served to shield bad actors and actually hide the truth from the public. He doesn't ask or wonder if Mr. Leahy is actually seeking to shield bad actors and hide the truth from the public in the same way that the 911 commission did. Mr Shane could have done more on the benefits of criminal prosecutions. I still recommend this piece.

To Mr. Cheney, the Church legacy was a regrettable pruning of the president’s powers to protect the country — powers he and Bush administration lawyers reasserted after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

And when the public learns that Mr. Cheney is involved in conducting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, they are going to be very angry about being ‘protected’.

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