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WASHINGTON (AP) - The incoming Obama administration should launch a criminal investigation of Bush administration officials to see whether they broke the law in the name of national security, a House Democratic report said Tuesday. President-elect Barack Obama has been more cautious on the issue and has not endorsed such a recommendation.
Along with the criminal probe, the report called for a Sept. 11-style commission with subpoena power, to gather facts and make recommendations on preventing misuse of power, according to the report by the Democratic staff of the House Judiciary Committee.
The report covers Bush administration policies that Democrats have protested for some time. Among them: interrogation of foreign detainees, warrantless wiretaps, retribution against critics, manipulation of intelligence and political dismissals of U.S. attorneys.
The White House was asked for comment on the report Tuesday, but did not immediately respond.
However, in an interview this month with The Associated Press, Vice President Dick Cheney said, "I can't speak for everybody in the administration, but my view would be that the people who carried out that program - intelligence surveillance program, the enhanced interrogation program, with respect to al Qaeda captives - in fact were authorized to do what they did ... ."
But Obama wants to look forward, right?
Who knows if the 111th Congress will do the right thing in pursuing criminals Bush and Cheney? The 110th Congress facilitated their crimes.
ReplyDeleteAnd now, Bush says it was a mistake to say ‘mission accomplished’, but his mission may well have been accomplished if… his mission was to allow the United States of America to be attacked and civilians killed on September 11, 2001, then his mission was accomplished,
if his mission was to lie Americans into a war to avenge his father's name against Saddam Hussein, his mission was accomplished, if his mission was to bankrupt the American economy, his mission was accomplished, if his mission was to break the strength and the honor of the U.S. military, his mission was accomplished, if his mission was to break international laws and the Geneva convention and our own laws on torture, then his mission was accomplished, if his mission was to sully the reputation of U.S.A. around the world, his mission was accomplished, if his mission was to diminish Americans civil liberties and dismantle the U.S. Constitution, then his mission was accomplished, if his mission was to spy on private American citizens in the guise of protecting us from a terror of the government's making, then his mission was accomplished, if his mission was to out a covert CIA operative, his mission was accomplished,...could go on and on. The mission that Bush (and Cheney) accomplished is chaos, and human disaster of epic proportions, and total economic and financial collapse, and the disruption of life and liberty...Bush has accomplished one hell of a mission.
It's obvious that you suffer from Bush Derangement Syndrome...blaming Bush for 9/11 is not only inaccurate, it is disgusting and disrepectful to the men and women who lost their lives that day.
ReplyDelete...you also managed to disrepect the military. Bush made the military, stronger and better equipped after Clinton successfully dismantled it...
Why do Liberals continue to slam Bush for being stupid, inarticulate, naive and simple yet come up with these twisted, complex conspiracy theories that would take a genius to execute?
How dare you be so disrespectful and repugnant! You clearly represent what's wrong with America. Insane Leftist Socialist Pigs like yourself do far more damage to America then Bush or Cheney could ever dream of.
You are disgusting...