Conyers Invites Top Officials To Testify At Torture Hearing

[maddezmom]

Source: CBS

The Politico) House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) Friday invited several former Bush administration officials to testify at an upcoming committee hearing on the legality of several torture techniques.

Conyers invited a slew of high profile names, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former CIA Director George Tenet, former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, Chief of Staff to the Vice-President David Addington, and former Assistant Attorney General Daniel Levin to testify at the hearing which will take place on May 6.

Conyers also invited John Yoo, a former Justice Department official who authored a controversial March 2003 memorandum establishing the legal guidelines for the interrogation of detainees.

“New and troubling allegations suggest that the decisions on torture came from the highest levels of government,” said Conyers in a statement. “These reports, if true, represent a stain on our democracy. The American people deserve to hear directly from those involved.”

Democrats have seized on the torture issue in the 110th Congress, fueled by several high-profile stories in the media, hoping to link the controversial issue directly to President Bush.



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/11/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4010254.shtml

[glowing]

1. Invite.. WTF.. supeona their asses and put them under oath.

[jtrockville]

2. Congress doesn't have subpeona power anymore, do they?

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. Read here to know more

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:1Mkb9EZPEp8J:www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RL31836.pdf+subpoena+power+senate&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

[KansDem]

3. Yeah! Conyers needs to take off the velvet gloves and put on brass knuckles (nt)

[FreepFryer]

4. The issue IS linked directly to President Bush...

President Bush says he knew his top national security advisors discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to an exclusive interview with ABC News Friday.

Well, we started to connect the dots, in order to protect the American people." Bush told ABC New s White House correspondent Martha Raddatz. "And, yes, I'm aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved."

As first reported by ABC News on Wednesday, the most senior Bush administration officials repeatedly discussed and approved specific details of exactly how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency.

The high-level discussions about these "enhanced interrogation techniques" were so detailed, these sources said, some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed -- down to the number of times CIA agents could use a specific tactic.

These top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al Qaeda suspects -- whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding, sources told ABC news.

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/LawPolitics/story?id=4635175&page=1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3264980

[Frisbee]

6. Come on, John...

We all know you have it in you! Go after these Criminal bastards!