Retired general, FBI chief want Obama to investigate Bush administration's detainee policies

[babylonsister]

So now the Chicago Tribune has picked up this story. I think I see legs growing that might be difficult to ignore.


Retired general, FBI chief want Obama to investigate Bush administration's detainee policies

By PAMELA HESS | Associated Press Writer
4:50 PM CST, February 18, 2009


WASHINGTON (AP) — The former general who investigated abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison is joining an ex-FBI director and others in seeking a presidential commission to investigate the Bush administration's treatment of terror detainees.

They want President Barack Obama to create a nonpartisan, independent panel that would review policies such as harsh interrogations and "extraordinary renditions," the forced movement of suspected terrorists.

Obama has appointed a task force to recommend new policies for handling terror suspects who are detained in the future and to decide where they would be housed once the prison at Guantanamo Bay closes.

But the president has resisted calls for a review of President George W. Bush's record. "I'm more interested in looking forward than I am in looking backward," Obama said Feb. 9.

The new push comes from a group that includes retired Army Maj. Gen. Anthony Taguba, former FBI Director William Sessions and former Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering. It was Taguba's internal report on abuse of prisoners by Army military guards at Abu Ghraib that led to various investigations.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-detainee-commission,0,4926069.story

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

[hootinholler]

2. Another kick.

Hopefully the committee that investigates will be a Grand Jury.

-Hoot

[chill_wind]

3. Don't we all. To the GP.

"Others involved in the commission effort are Juan E. Mendez, former special adviser to the U.N. secretary-general on the prevention of genocide, and Rev. John H. Thomas, president of the United Church of Christ.

Also supporting the idea are 18 human rights groups, from Amnesty International to the National Institute of Military Justice."

Let the collective voices grow.

[kentuck]

4. Hint..hint...wink...wink...

Obama does not want to support this because he is trying to maintain some support from the Republican Party. But he says no one is above the law. The Congress should investigate. Obama is not against it. He just doesn't feel politically able to publically support it...wink...wink..

[DCKit]

5. "A Nation of Laws" - depending on your social and economic status.

It's long past time - about 35 years - to begin holding these people accountable.