What's Left for the Truth Commission
By David Nather
CQ Politics
As President Obama has struggled to nail down a position on whether to create a “truth commission” to investigate the Bush administration’s interrogation practices — as of this writing, he’s against it, but keep checking this space — few paused to note that the Senate Armed Services Committee put out a pretty good report on that exact subject this week.
Which raises the question: What, exactly, is going to be left for a truth commission to do after the regular congressional investigations are finished?
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the main advocate of the truth commission proposal, thinks torture is just one of several issues that an independent and nonpartisan panel should tackle. He contends that in a host of policy areas, the Bush administration stretched the laws to fit its broad notions of executive power.
(More here.)
CQ Politics
As President Obama has struggled to nail down a position on whether to create a “truth commission” to investigate the Bush administration’s interrogation practices — as of this writing, he’s against it, but keep checking this space — few paused to note that the Senate Armed Services Committee put out a pretty good report on that exact subject this week.
Which raises the question: What, exactly, is going to be left for a truth commission to do after the regular congressional investigations are finished?
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the main advocate of the truth commission proposal, thinks torture is just one of several issues that an independent and nonpartisan panel should tackle. He contends that in a host of policy areas, the Bush administration stretched the laws to fit its broad notions of executive power.
(More here.)
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