Senator Whitehouse to investigate BushCo even if Obama doesn’t

by markthshark
Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 03:25:30 AM PST

As diaries go, this isn’t much of one but the information herein is, I believe, both newsworthy, and (for many of us progressives) very heartening. It certainly made me smile this mornin'
It seems hope does spring eternal.

Over the past week or so, President-elect Obama, Vice President-elect Biden, various cable news pundits, and a slew of progressive bloggers have all weighed in on whether the outgoing Bush administration should/will be investigated for ordering the torture of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and other U.S. run detainee facilities around the world.

Read on...

This sounds good but the Senate and the House hasn't even been able to enforce subpoenas against the Bush Whitehouse. And its entirely possible the the Supreme Court will side with the Unitary Executive and say Bush and his pals don't have to respond to the Subpoenas. Tom

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