Will We Ever Learn the Truth?
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Will we ever find out what President Bush really did in our name?
There's so much we still don't know -- about torture, warrantless wiretapping, and the politicization of the Justice Department, just for starters.
Once Bush leaves office, will there be congressional investigations? Criminal investigations? Bipartisan commission investigations? Will President Obama make public all the relevant records? Will ex-president Bush still try to assert executive privilege? Will it work?
Charlie Savage explores some of these questions in today's New York Times. In 1953, Congress established "a precedent suggesting that former presidents wield lingering powers to keep matters from their administration secret," he writes.
"Now, as Congressional Democrats prepare to move forward with investigations of the Bush administration, they wonder whether that claim may be invoked again
(More here.)
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Will we ever find out what President Bush really did in our name?
There's so much we still don't know -- about torture, warrantless wiretapping, and the politicization of the Justice Department, just for starters.
Once Bush leaves office, will there be congressional investigations? Criminal investigations? Bipartisan commission investigations? Will President Obama make public all the relevant records? Will ex-president Bush still try to assert executive privilege? Will it work?
Charlie Savage explores some of these questions in today's New York Times. In 1953, Congress established "a precedent suggesting that former presidents wield lingering powers to keep matters from their administration secret," he writes.
"Now, as Congressional Democrats prepare to move forward with investigations of the Bush administration, they wonder whether that claim may be invoked again
(More here.)
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