Conyers Calls For Probe Of Bush's Torture Policies

[sabra]

Source: The Public Record

In one of the first acts of the 111th Congress, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers proposed legislation to create a blue-ribbon panel of outside experts to probe the “broad range” of policies pursued by the Bush administration “under claims of unreviewable war powers,” including torture of detainees and warrantless wiretaps.

Conyers’s proposal for a National Commission on Presidential War Powers and Civil Liberties also signals that Congress will devote significant time this year to investigating the Bush administration’s most controversial actions with an eye to rolling back its expansion of executive power.

Many civil liberties and human rights groups feared that the Democratic-controlled Congress and Barack Obama’s administration would duck any sustained inquiry into wrongdoing by George W. Bush and his subordinates, to avoid angering Republicans.

While Conyers’s plan falls short of the criminal probe that civil rights groups have sought, neither would it prevent a criminal investigation by Obama’s Justice Department if the new administration moves in that direction, said two aides on Obama’s transition team who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Read more: http://www.pubrecord.org/politics/604-conyers-wants-ind...

[thunder rising]

1. So is this the stearnly worded letter phase or the demanding phase (redux)

[proudAZdem]

5. Democrats and non-neocons

Democrats and non-neocons should be pushing for a criminal probe into Bush and his administration.

Bush has repeatedly gone beyond his constitutional duties and expanded his powers without concern for the American public or the other branches of government. He is by far the worst president EVER and his cronies are currently rewriting history: http://tv1.com/playlists/123

[Old Codger]

2. Business as usual

That is it, a panel will take years to study the problem and then issue a finding 5 or 6 years down the road, this is the usual way they dodge their real responsibilities .

[ChiciB1]

3. Well... Words Are Words... ACTION & REAL ACTION Are Birds Of Another Feather!

I'll applaud IF or WHEN something actually gets done!!!

[balantz]

4. Oh yes, a National Comission. Just what we need to get to the bottom of it.

[stillcool]

6. at least it'll make good tv...

too bad all the good stuff is 'classified'.

[smiley]

7. Wonderful! Another commission......

That really helped to get to the bottom of 9/11.... didn't it?

[OwnedByFerrets]

8. Senator Conyers, arent you rushing this a bit?

[VP505]

9. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Let me know when they announce their findings.

[Ian David]

10. I'll believe it when I see it, Johnny Letter. n/t

[Sherman A1]

11. Yawn..........

Just like all of the previous faux attempts

[Senator]

12. Let Me Guess: "Something Must Be Done! ..."

"... at some later time ... by someone other than me."

-- John Conyers, Tower of Jello

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[mikelgb]

13. yawn