The 9/11 Commission and Torture -- Newsweek
The bipartisan panel that investigated the terrorist attacks was widely praised. But did its final report rely on suspect information?
Powerful Democrats on Capitol Hill are clamoring for creation of a bipartisan "9/11 style" commission to investigate the legality of the Bush administration's antiterrorism tactics—especially its use of harsh interrogation techniques.
President Obama has been notably cool to the idea. But the case for a "truth" commission was bolstered by the disclosure this month that the CIA had destroyed 92 videotapes of the interrogations and confinement of Al Qaeda suspects. A dozen showed the use of "enhanced" techniques routinely described by human-rights groups as torture.
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My Comment: The Democrat party is talking the talk .... but they are not going to walk the walk. The simple fact is that their leadership signed onto the tactics of the CIA and relevant intelligence agencies right after 9/11 (who didn't). They knew exactly what was going to happen .... and the consequences from these decisions. If I may quote Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld at the time .... "we will need to now get our hands dirty".
To now have a "Commission" that will investigate themselves .... nope .... this is not going to happen.
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