The motivation for blocking investigations into Bush lawbreaking

JeanLR — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:11:00 -0700

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/15/complicity/index.html

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"...In light of this sordid history of active complicity, is it really
any wonder that these leading Democrats are desperate to quash any
investigations or judicial adjudications of Bush administration actions
that they knew about and did nothing to stop, in some cases even
actively supporting? ..." ....

"...In December of last year, The Washington Post revealed:
Four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said...." ......

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Jonathon Turley: "...Well, there's no question in my mind that there is
an obvious level of collusion here. We now know that Democratic
leadership knew about the illegal surveillance program almost from its
inception. Even when they were campaigning about fighting for civil
liberties, they were aware of an unlawful surveillance program as well
as a torture program. And ever since that came out, the Democrats have
been silently trying to kill any effort to hold anyone accountable
because that list could very well include some of their own members.
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