First Steps to Bring Blair and Bush to Justice


	First Steps to Bring Blair and Bush to Justice

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2-17-2009 7:24 PM

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2-18-2009 12:32 AM

Yassin_M

Let us all support Senator Patrick Leahy, "We would be making bad mistake, for history's purpose, if we walk away from this,"

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<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/dcf6c56c-f0b9-4d27-83f7-c32baa60db48/68EA60E0-FDDA-40A7-9B46-944441B33652/" 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://www.time.com/time/article/widgets/perma.html?height=90&width=449" href="http://www.time.com/time/article/widgets/perma.html?height=90&width=449" style="font-size: 11px;">www.time.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/article/widgets/perma.html?height=90&width=449"><H1>Leahy's Plan to Probe Bush-Era Wrongdoings
</H1></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://www.time.com/time/article/widgets/perma.html?height=90&width=449"><DIV class="byline">By <SPAN class="name"><A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Bobby Ghosh / Washington</A></SPAN> <SPAN class="date">Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009</SPAN></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://www.time.com/time/article/widgets/perma.html?height=90&width=449">Senator Patrick Leahy isn't about to drop his proposal for a Truth Commission to investigate <A target="_new" href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1870319,00.html" linkindex="34">wrongdoing in the Bush Administration</A>. "We would be making bad mistake, for history's purpose, if we walk away from this,"</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://www.time.com/time/article/widgets/perma.html?height=90&width=449"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.time.com/img/948A20F2-439A-4F7F-9C0F-8AB17149811E" alt="Ankle cuffs are used to restrain prisoners at the detention facility at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba." /></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://www.time.com/time/article/widgets/perma.html?height=90&width=449"><DIV class="caption">Ankle cuffs are used to restrain prisoners at the detention facility at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.</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://www.time.com/time/article/widgets/perma.html?height=90&width=449"> Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is not in any mood to let bygones be bygones, and he reportedly <A target="_new" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/10/exclusive-leahy-talks-to_n_165774.html" linkindex="39" set="yes">discussed his idea of the commission</A> with White House chief counsel Gregg Craig last week. </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://www.time.com/time/article/widgets/perma.html?height=90&width=449">As Leahy envisions it, the Truth Commission's priorities would be to investigate the politicization of prosecution in the Justice Department under former <A target="_new" href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1619091,00.html" linkindex="41" set="yes">Attorney General Alberto Gonzales</A>; the wiretapping of U.S. Citizens; the flawed intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq; and <A target="_new" href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1872158,00.html" linkindex="42" set="yes">the use of torture at Guantanamo</A> and so-called black sites abroad.</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/68EA60E0-FDDA-40A7-9B46-944441B33652/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.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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