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...Even then, there was no action taken initially; eight months elapsed before the court declined to act, without explanation, even though the application was supported by the state's attorney general. But the day after federal charges were leveled against the two judges - the result of a long-running probe into links between the court and the youth-detention centers - the state supreme court reversed itself and appointed someone to clean up the mess...
...directions. Senator Patrick Leahy continues to push for a truth commission to look into the more contentious Bush-era practices, including allegations of torture. And Senator Dianne Feinstein's Intelligence Committee has just launched a review of the CIA's interrogation and detention policies. (Read "Leahy's Plan to Probe Bush-Era Wrongdoings...
...same time, the Justice Department has released controversial memos authored by John Yoo, a Cheney protégé at the Office of Legal Counsel, which critics say authorized the mistreatment of terrorist suspects. Pressure is also growing on the department to release the report of an internal ethics probe into the actions of Yoo and two other OLC lawyers. Many Democrats would like to see Yoo and Cheney's own lawyer, David Addington, investigated for their role in creating the Bush Administration's so-called torture doctrine. And on the weekend of Cheney's CNN appearance, a leaked Red Cross report...
...President Barack Obama has been reluctant to probe too deeply into Bush-era interrogation and detention policies, saying he'd prefer to look forward, not back. But this charitable attitude is bound to be tested by Cheney's take-no-prisoners strategy - in addition to defending Bush's record, the ex-Veep also poured scorn on Obama's financial policies. The White House responded with some scorn of its own. "I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy, so they trotted out the next most popular member of the Republican cabal," Robert Gibbs, Obama's press secretary, said at his daily briefing...
...Read "CIA Vets Blast Senate Probe of Operations Under Bush...