On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Larry L wrote: > > > How much of a conflict was there really? Its now coming out that the bush > administration started the torture then sought legal justification. > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/21/AR2009042104055.html?hpid=topnews >
> At the very least this should be investigated by a politically neutral > commission with the power to compel testimony and make sure no one is > immune. I suspect though if something like that is setup a lot of Bush > administration people from Dick Cheney on down will suddenly move to Dubai. And yet even Obama's team, in private, acknowledges that the techniques brought good information, even preventing the "second wave" attacks on LA: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97N7QK80&show_article=1 http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46949 Hence the conflict. Furthermore, senior members of Congress, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, knew about the detention centers and harsh techniques very early on in the process: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004061384_tapes09.html Because of all that, I think the possibility of a commission is next to nil. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:295641 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
