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Or so we would like to think.
No final results of the UK election are available yet, and the horse trading has yet to begin, but it would seem that FINALLY we may be done with looking at Gordon Brown’s ugly face every time there’s a British political item in the news.
Apparently I emitted sufficient (admittedly angry) psychic energy in my rant of yesterday concerning former VP Dick Cheney, that Senator Patrick Leahy picked up the vibrations.
According to the Washington Post:
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday called for a “truth commission” to investigate controversial actions of the Bush administration, including the politically inspired firings of U.S. attorneys, the treatment and torture of terrorism suspects and the authorization of warrantless wiretapping.
Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) said his proposal is meant to launch a fact-finding inquiry into key decisions of George W. Bush’s presidency, including intelligence matters before and during the Iraq war and scandals at the Department of Justice. He said such a commission would not seek to prosecute former administration officials but would have the power to subpoena them to testify.
“Rather than vengeance, we need a fair-minded pursuit of what actually happened,” Leahy said as he outlined his proposal during a speech at Georgetown University. “Sometimes the best way to move forward is getting to the truth, finding out what happened, so we can make sure it does not happen again.”
There are minefields contained within this idea – a lot of ‘em. If it’s done, it needs to be structured with almost surgical care……
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From Politico
Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.
In an interview Tuesday with Politico, Cheney unyieldingly defended the Bush administration’s support for the Guantanamo Bay prison and coercive interrogation of terrorism suspects.
Mr. Cheney, you’ve been in Washington long enough to know one thing….following an election, there’s an unwritten rule that the losers (that’s you sir, and your fellow unindicted co-conspirator former President and now citizen Mr. George W. Bush) remain SILENT for a period of time. Just so you know, that period generally greatly exceeds three weeks. We’re not including Citizen Carter in this, because he’s never known how to remain silent on anything, germane or otherwise. Nor do we include AlGore – who is a known disingenuous self-aggrandizer, exaggerator (and we’re being polite here, because we dislike the word “liar”) and also – not incidentally- the recipient of a Dogshit Fat Bastard award.
So, let’s get back to the narrative, shall we? ….
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