Thursday, February 26, 2009

Senate To Investigate CIA's Actions Under Bush

From The L.A. Times:

The 'fact-finding' effort will seek details on secret prisons and interrogation methods -- but will not aim to determine if CIA officials broke laws, legislative sources say.

Reporting from Washington -- The Senate Intelligence Committee is preparing to launch an investigation of the CIA's detention and interrogation programs under President George W. Bush, setting the stage for a sweeping examination of some of most secretive and controversial operations in recent agency history.

The inquiry is aimed at uncovering new information on the origins of the programs as well as scrutinizing how they were executed -- including the conditions at clandestine CIA prison sites and the interrogation regimens used to break Al Qaeda suspects, according to Senate aides familiar with the investigation plans.

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My Comment: The Senators in the oversight committees already know what happened. In fact .... they signed off on it. But because they now want a public hearing in which they will control the gavel and proceedings .... only one phrase can sum up what is going on here.

Witch hunt.

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