They Didn't Seem to Mind Ken Starr's 8 Year Fishing Trip

[rayboyusmc]

WASHINGTON – A Democratic-proposed "truth commission" to investigate the Bush administration is generating more partisanship in a Congress already filled with it.

Republicans are almost universally opposed, and President Barack Obama doesn't appear to be enthralled with the idea either, saying at his first prime-time news conference he would consider the proposal but wants to look forward.

Sponsors said the commission could investigate who — in President George W. Bush's inner circle — drove the harsh interrogations and warrantless surveillance programs, and probe White House involvement in politically motivated hirings and firings in Bush's Justice Department.

There is more to learn, since the Bush administration has kept many documents on these subjects secret and ordered three former White House officials not to testify before Congress. But Obama's Justice Department also is resisting pressure to release those documents.

If Democrats in Congress proceed, it would be one more bruising political debate in a Congress that's had plenty of them since convening last month.

The truth will set you free - or maybe get your ass in jail.

'Truth commission' could spark more partisanship

 

[Old Rocks]

Time to get on with this. The Republicans are acting in a totally partisan fashion, so why not out their criminals?

 

[editec]

If crimes were committed, they ought to be outed.

But right now, we have bigger fish to fry.

 

[Old Rocks]

Don't really have to have major investigations, just take the secret label off of all the garbage that the last admin labeled secret to cover their and their corperate buddies asses.