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Juche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 08:21 PM
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Conyers wants Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to look into abuses
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Source: The Public record



“The Attorney General should appoint a Special Counsel to determine whether there were criminal violations committed pursuant to Bush Administration policies that were undertaken under unreviewable war powers, including enhanced interrogation, extraordinary rendition, and warrantless domestic surveillance,” Conyers’s report says. “In this regard, the report firmly rejects the notion that we should move on from these matters.”

However, Conyers has not formally asked the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel as he had last year when he and 55 other House Democrats signed a letter sent to Attorney General Michael Mukasey seeking a special prosecutor to investigate the growing body of evidence that Bush administration officials had sanctioned torture, which had been documented by the International Committee of the Red Cross.




Read more: http://www.pubrecord.org/law/815-conyers-wants-holder-to-appoint-a-special-counsel-to-probe-bush-crimes.html



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