No truth commission on torture, says Obama

[Meeker Morgan]

No truth commission on torture, says Obama
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0425/1224245378354.html

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has backed away from support for a truth commission to investigate the use of torture by CIA interrogators during the Bush administration, telling congressional leaders that he does not want to litigate the past.

Earlier this week, the president suggested that he could support an independent commission to investigate the abuses but at a White House meeting with Democratic and Republican leaders, he said such an inquiry could open the door to a protracted, backward-looking discussion.

“The president determined the concept didn’t seem altogether workable in this case,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters later.

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I called this before and got chewed out for being an "apologist" for torture. As if understanding how it would play was exactly the same as liking it.

[Dragonfli]

1. Whitewash ..err.. I mean "truth" commissions are for cover-ups

We are better off without one, what is needed is a special prosecutor and the hope that the justice department does not decide to immunize any criminals unless they give up someone up the chain.

Treat it like the organized crime gang that it is.

[mix]

4. +1

[rcrush]

2. Cause the Warren Commission and The 9/11 Commission revealed so much...

[MannyGoldstein]

3. We Have Confession All The Way Up The Line - No Need

for a "truth commission", the prosecutions must start immediately if we are to uphold our Constitution.

[rhett o rick]

5. Constitution?? Didn't that die a few years ago? nm

[Occam Bandage]

6. Truth commisions are garbage. nt