Remember the Bush administration and how many laws they broke? Unfortunately nothing will probably ever come of that.
Everyone has a price and I guess someone found Senator Leahy’s.
Leahy Says Future of ‘Truth Commission’ Rests Upon GOP Support
By Jason Leopold
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said the refusal of Republicans to act in a non-partisan way has hobbled his plan for a “truth commission” that would examine alleged Bush administration abuses.
In a Senate floor speech Thursday, the Vermont Democrat acknowledged that his plan could not move forward as he intended unless all sides approached the inquiry into ex-President George W Bush’s expansive claims to executive power with objectivity and fair-mindedness.
On Monday, Leahy confided to a group of Vermonters that his “truth commission” is “not going to happen” because not a single a Republican would support it, according to journalist and author Charlotte Dennett, who attended the meeting. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Leahy Bails on Truth Commission Plan”]
It’s time to find something else to believe in . . . our justice system doesn’t seem to be working out.
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