Leahy Bails on 'Truth Commission' Plan

[L. Coyote]

91,510 signatures so far... keep it going!
http://bushtruthcommission.com/

Let's make it 100,000 strong anyway!!

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Leahy Bails on 'Truth Commission' Plan
Charlotte Dennett - April 1, 2009 - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/040109b.html

Editor’s Note: ... investigative journalist and former candidate
for Vermont attorney general, Charlotte Dennett, describes a meeting
with Sen. Patrick Leahy in which he acknowledges the failure of his plan for a “truth commission”:

Those of you following the George W. Bush prosecution trail will be interested to know that Patrick Leahy’s “truth commission” is a no-go. I was in a meeting with Leahy and four other Vermonters on Monday when he broke the news to us.

We had asked for the meeting to learn why he supported a truth commission over the appointment of a special prosecutor.

Halfway through the allotted 30 minute meeting (with him taking up much of the time explaining why he was not generally opposed to prosecution, since he had been a DA for eight years and had the highest conviction rate in Vermont), he told us that his truth commission had failed to get the broad support it needed in Congress, and since he couldn’t get one Republican to come behind the plan, “it’s not going to happen.”

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[cali]

1. I'd wait on that.

not saying it won't be confirmed but Dennett isn't reliable, imo. Let's see what the other Vermonters say about the meeting.

[DURHAM D]

2. Seriously - the Republicans could move Gibraltar with 50 Senators.

We can't move a feather without 60?

What a bunch of wusses.

[L. Coyote]

4. Calling the House of Representatives .....

where a simple majority rules the roost.

[MadHound]

3. No Truth Commission, no prosecution, no justice,

And much like the aftermath of Nixon and Watergate, that festering evil will come back to haunt us.

Which is why we need to prosecute these crooks.

[L. Coyote]

5. This reads like the Iran-Contra Clinton story line near verbatim

except no Bush pardons this time encumbering the possibilities that remain.

Another different aspect of today's crimes is the statute of limitations.
There is none for war crimes, so any future administration can seek justice.