The truth has been kidnapped and taken to Texas.

[kentuck]

The new President-elect says that he prefers to move forward rather than backward. If your brother and father were missing and your car and bicycle were stolen from the garage, would you won't to just forget about it and move forward? Or would you want to find out the truth?

The natural inclination is to forget about unpleasant things that don't affect us personally. But this Administration has affected all of us in the most unpleasant manner. They have illegally spied on millions of Americans and probably the President-elect himself? They have tortured prisoners in our name, against all the rules of the Geneva Convention, and renditioned them to other countries for "special" torture. They have us stuck in at least two wars and disrespected around the world. They have busted our economic system and even ask the poor and homeless to help bail them out. They have lied about everything, at least from the WMDs forward.

Now, the sneering criminal wants to take all of the evidence down to Texas, to the SMU library, and hide it or destroy it. You can bet it will not be open to public inspection for quite a while. To borrow an old phrase from the right-wingers, if they have nothing to hide, why not open it up for the public to examine?

There can be no charges unless the truth be known. At the moment, the truth is in the trunk of a black limo or in a locked U-Haul, heading for the plains of Texas. If Obama wants a second term, then he had better let Congress investigate all these charges. Perhaps it will need to be more low-key, or even without his public approval, but it must be done. The truth must be set free. We cannot go "forward" under these circumstances - regardless of the other humongous problems facing our country.

[snappyturtle]

1. K&R There was a big discussion this morning on WJ about this subject.

ONE of the reasons I voted for PE Obama was because I thought he would show us that no one is above the law. I am very disappointed with recent remarks from the President Elect about moving forward without going after members of the present administration and their illegal acts. I have my fingers crossed that he is waiting until he is in office to unleash the investigations and by waiting and glossing over this subject * won't be doing any last minute pardoning. I agree that we cannot go forward unless the truth comes out.

[kentuck]

2. He would not be that overt or open about it...

Since he is trying to project an image of a uniter. He may say these things in public but behind the scenes, he could encourage Congress to investigate and find out as much as we possibly can about what criminal acts were committed and which were covered up and which were stolen from the White House, which belong to the American people, not the President or anyone else.

[snappyturtle]

3. Yesterday I heard him say in a clip on one of the Sunday morning

programs that he felt no one was above the law but......and then he drifted. I just wish he hdn't been asked the question until after he is sworn into office. I can tell you that callers on Washington Journal that support PE Obama were not happy. I hope he is operating behind the scenes.

[blm]

4. I have a thread on that, kentuck. Kerry hired a chief investigator for SFRC who wrote a BCCI book

and another about AQ Khan.

I don't think Obama will block investigations or refuse to cooperate with them.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4799158

[kentuck]

5. He has to be very careful how he plays his hand on this...

If it can appear that he is against the investigations but, behind the scenes, is encouraging a few Democrats to find out the truth, then we could live with that.