via Consortiumnews.com.
In one of the first acts of the 111th Congress, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers proposed legislation to create a blue-ribbon panel of outside experts to probe the “broad range” of policies pursued by the Bush administration “under claims of unreviewable war powers,” including torture of detainees and warrantless wiretaps.
Conyers’s proposal for a National Commission on Presidential War Powers and Civil Liberties also signals that Congress will devote significant time this year to investigating the Bush administration’s most controversial actions with an eye to rolling back its expansion of executive power.
Does anyone out there really belive this horse crap? The truth is the 111th Congress will have no more interest in prosecuting war criminals than the 110th Congress had. The most effective way Congress has to rid itself of an issue is to assign a blue ribbon commission to study the issue. Yawn.
“…Congress will devote significant time this year to investigating the Bush administration’s most controversial actions with an eye to rolling back its expansion of executive power.”
Actually Congress will devote significant time this year to bury the issue under the guise of a blue ribbon commission.
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