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In making the case for a truth commission, it is perhaps counterproductive to label as fungible evidence you don't like and then accuse the bureaucrats of conspiracies to mislead. In doing so Pelosi has unleashed a storm that threatens to undermine not only the intelligence community but her own...
The fight started after the release of a Justice Department memo showing that terror detainees were waterboarded hundreds of times. Pelosi then called for the formation of a truth commission to examine the legality of the tactics and whether those who justified and executed them should be held accountable. House...
Obama is expected to announce Friday that he is continuing Bush's controversial military commissions as a way of trying alleged terrorists outside the U.S. judicial system, albeit with additional safeguards for the accused. And in his self-professed desire to look forward rather than backwards, the President has spurned...
Pursuing his own hobbyhorse, Senator Patrick Leahy reiterated his call for an independent "truth commission" on Bush-era detention and interrogation policies. (Read an essay by Leahy on the case for a truth commission.)
Robert Turner, a law professor at the University of Virginia, took the somewhat charitable view that "good people, fearful for the safety of their fellow Americans, made bad decisions." That was echoed by Philip Zelikow, a former State Department lawyer who wrote a memo opposing the interrogation techniques. The CIA...