Saturday, May 16, 2009
MoDo and Frank Rich agree
We need a thorough and complete investigation of Bushovik torture. MoDo wanders through her column before finally saying,
I used to agree with President Obama, that it was better to keep moving and focus on our myriad problems than wallow in the darkness of the past. But now I want a full accounting. I want to know every awful act committed in the name of self-defense and patriotism. Even if it only makes one ambitious congresswoman pay more attention in some future briefing about some future secret technique that is “uniquely” designed to protect us, it will be worth it.Frank Rich, while taking longer, does follow a more direct and coherent way until he finally says,
I’m not a fan of Washington’s blue-ribbon commissions, where political compromises can trump the truth. But the 9/11 investigation did illuminate how, a month after Bush received an intelligence brief titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.,” 3,000 Americans were slaughtered on his and Cheney’s watch. If the Obama administration really wants to move on from the dark Bush era, it will need a new commission, backed up by serious law enforcement, to shed light on where every body is buried.Neither calls for the necessary prosecutions. We expect they will turn that stone later as more evidence reaches the light of day.
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