<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7fae9d16-6a13-4b74-a216-e143313144a0/1D54B7CF-AEF8-4C52-B834-B5523D07B34D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/a-truth-commission-for-the-bush-era/" href="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/a-truth-commission-for-the-bush-era/" style="font-size: 11px;">roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/a-truth-commission-for-the-bush-era/"><H2 class="entry-title">A Truth Commission for the Bush Era?</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/a-truth-commission-for-the-bush-era/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/img/3D6986FA-0355-400C-A688-D6731E18173C" alt="George W. Bush" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/a-truth-commission-for-the-bush-era/"><P>A USA Today/Gallup poll in February found that <A href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-02-11-investigation-poll_N.htm" linkindex="35">62 percent of Americans favor a criminal investigation or an independent panel </A>to look into the use of torture, illegal wiretapping, and other alleged abuses of power by the Bush administration. But that idea has been dismissed by many as politically infeasible. And President Obama has said he was <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/weekinreview/22shane.html?scp=10&sq=conyers%20commission&st=cse" linkindex="36">“more interested in looking forward than I am in looking backwards.” </A> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/a-truth-commission-for-the-bush-era/"><P>Still, that hasn’t deterred Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, from <A href="http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200902/020909a.html" linkindex="37">calling for</A> a “truth commission” and <A href="http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=3686" linkindex="38">scheduling a hearing on the issue</A> this Wednesday. Already, Rep. John Conyers Jr., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has introduced <A href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR00104:@@@D&summ2=m&" linkindex="39">a bill</A> to set up an inquiry panel. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/a-truth-commission-for-the-bush-era/"><P>Should Congress create a truth commission? Or is it time to move on? </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1D54B7CF-AEF8-4C52-B834-B5523D07B34D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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