I'm running really late today, so I'm going to stick you with a fairly short post. Sometimes we just can't get what we want. What I want is time to write my usual post in the neighborhood of 1,000 words, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. When you have enough time and you have enough resources,
then you can get what you want and it's then that you should be able to make your best effort. You should be able to buckle in, get serious, and do some good work.
Someone ought to explain that to Pat Leahy.
Raw Story:
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) says that -- rather than a criminal prosecution -- he would prefer to see a commission of inquiry into the growing controversy over the CIA misleading Congress and allegations that then-Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to withhold crucial information.
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Leahy told CBS's Face the Nation that a commission of inquiry is preferable to criminal prosecution because "an inquiry would go into everything; a special prosecutor would be very narrowly focused.
"I just don't want to see an instance where if the higher-ups gave the order to break the law, that the ones who are punished are the lower-level front-line troops," Leahy said.
Leahy's answer to calls for an investigation into Bush torture policies is
also a truth commission. It's starting to look like Leahy has truth commissions on the brain... [
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