Rep's' crusade against torture probe

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Rep's' crusade against torture probe
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Fri, 05-08-2009 - 4:11pm

Republican senators used a hearing Thursday with Attorney General Eric Holder to discourage an investigation into torture under the Bush administration. Both Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Richard Shelby of Alabama suggested that they would push hard to expand any probe of the CIA's "rendition" program and other legally and morally questionable tactics to include the Clinton administration, as well as members of Congress who were briefed on interrogation methods.


Keith Olbermann had Brandon Friedman from VoteVets.org on Thursday night to discuss how people in the military felt about Republicans' crusade against torture probes.


Watch: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/08/republicans-warn-holder-d_n_199842.html

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Registered: 04-11-2009
Fri, 05-08-2009 - 6:50pm

I think that we should investigate this. I also think that there is the implication that Clinton was involved in torture, but I think we're going to find that the renditions during the 1990's don't resemble the extraordinary renditions in the 00's. I'd like to know, however, so if that means going back to Reagan, we should investigate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition

 

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Registered: 08-30-2008
Fri, 05-08-2009 - 8:36pm
I wouldnt have a problem with a torture probe weeding out all violators of rights and justice in this country - republican or democrat.