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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News Torture investigation seems more likely
Posted By John Grooms on Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:25 PM
The debates over the use of torture during the Bush administration and what, if anything, to do about it, are moving faster than we can keep up with, but here's a stab at telling you today's developments:
1. It now appears all but certain that there will be some form of investigation, perhaps multiple investigations, into Bush era torture, as a bipartisan consensus seems to have evolved on Capitol Hill. Whether the probe will be by Congress, an independent commission, or a special prosecutor named by the Justice Department is still up in the air.
2. The GOP's House Minority Leader John Boehner has now referred to what the media still calls "harsh interrogation techniques" as "torture," saying that the torture under the Bush regime was "clearly a political decision and ignored the advice of their Director of National Intelligence and their CIA director." If this guy's turning on the Bushies, who's gonna be left to support them?
3. Piecing together stories from AP and McClatchy, it's now apparent that both former VP Darth Cheney and former Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice gave advance approval for the use of torture — which means investigators will eventually have to decide just how far up the totem pole potential prosecutions should go. There's no confirmation of rumors that Rice has already picked out drapes for her prison cell.
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