This will just have to speak for itself
:
"I think we need to have a full, fair account of what happened [during the last eight years]come out, and probably that's going to have to go through a commission, but I think the Republicans are right when they say, you know, what the Democratic leadership did needs to fully exposed too if there's going to be an inquiry. So I think they're raising that because they want to block an inquiry, but I think the point is an absolutely fair, correct point. It does need to be exposed." [emphasis added]
-Scott Horton, interviewed on Oct. 15 by Glenn Greenwald.
As many might reflect, investigations tend not to be pursued with the proper diligence by those who will be, in effect, investigating themselves.
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That's why the call for an independent investigator with subpoena powers.
There is a ton of unfinished business on the docket.
Torture
AG Firings
Seigelman
Hatch Act Violations
Deleted WH Emails
Contempt Proceedings
Gonzales/Mukasey Perjury
and so forth and so on......
October 23, 2008 7:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think we need to have a full and fair accounting of what has happened in this country during the last 200 plus years.
October 23, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was very encouraged to hear Obama mention torture during the last debate, and for his campaign to fight against voter suppression vigorously.
David Iglesias might make an excellent choice for AG. He seems to appreciate the enormity of what has been done to the law in this country.
And I don't think either party will be able to doubt his evenhandedness.
There is a lot that Horton mentions in his interview that doesn't completely add up. For instance, he mentions how Sen. Rockefeller's wife, Sharon, may have blocked a documentary on Bush Admin torture, and yet Sen. Rockefeller was been one of Obama's strongest advocates during the primaries, in an overwhelmingly pro-Hillary state. It seems fair to say that it would be more likely to get an accounting of what happened during the last eight years uder Obama than under Clinton.
October 24, 2008 10:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
See
torturingdemocracy.org
for an excellent documentary -- PBS -- which puts the pieces together into one coherent narrative.
October 24, 2008 11:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the link.
It is the very documentary that I mentioned above, which WETA, alone among PBS affiliates, declined to air.
Sharon Rockefeller is CEO of WETA.
October 24, 2008 12:37 PM | Reply | Permalink