Retired general, FBI chief want Obama to investigate Bush administration's detainee policies
By PAMELA HESS
Associated Press Writer
February 18, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — The former general who investigated abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison is joining an ex-FBI director and others in seeking a presidential commission to investigate the Bush administration's treatment of terror detainees.
They want President Barack Obama to create a nonpartisan, independent panel that would review policies such as harsh interrogations and "extraordinary renditions," the forced movement of suspected terrorists.
Obama has appointed a task force to recommend new policies for handling terror suspects who are detained in the future and to decide where they would be housed once the prison at Guantanamo Bay closes.
But the president has resisted calls for a review of President George W. Bush's record. "I'm more interested in looking forward than I am in looking backward," Obama said Feb. 9.
(More here.)
Associated Press Writer
February 18, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — The former general who investigated abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison is joining an ex-FBI director and others in seeking a presidential commission to investigate the Bush administration's treatment of terror detainees.
They want President Barack Obama to create a nonpartisan, independent panel that would review policies such as harsh interrogations and "extraordinary renditions," the forced movement of suspected terrorists.
Obama has appointed a task force to recommend new policies for handling terror suspects who are detained in the future and to decide where they would be housed once the prison at Guantanamo Bay closes.
But the president has resisted calls for a review of President George W. Bush's record. "I'm more interested in looking forward than I am in looking backward," Obama said Feb. 9.
(More here.)
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