For the past seven years, like so many on this site, I have dreamed of the day when some authority could force accountability from our current administration. My hopes that Congress could provide oversight, supervision and accountability were certainly a little too optimistic.
If you look back at the past thirty to thirty-five years it is easy to see that the only meaningful way to deal with the power of the executive branch, especially this executive branch, is to appoint a special prosecutor. For this administration there was only one situation where we have gotten anywhere close to the bottom of what was going on. (Well, maybe the DOJ scandal was an exception.) Yep, it was the Patrick Fitzgerald investigation. Now perhaps we have been given the impetus we needed to force the appointment of another.
This morning, the New York Times published an editorial from the Chairmen of the 9-11 Commission. They point the finger at the CIA for not disclosing the presence of the much discussed video tapes and how such lack of disclosure damaged their ability to produce the report they wanted to produce. However, the White House knew about the tapes as well and never insisted on their disclosure. How much did organ grinder Cheney and his pet chimp know about the tapes? Did they advise against telling the Commission? We need a special prosecutor to find out. It may be that the Commission Chairmen have given us the smoking gun that cannot be denied. This is how they ended their piece.
What we do know is that government officials decided not to inform a lawfully constituted body, created by Congress and the president, to investigate one the greatest tragedies to confront this country. We call that obstruction.
Note they didn't just say the CIA in their closing lines. They say that the work of the 9-11 Commission was obstructed by government officials. How can the DOJ not appoint a special prosecutor and have any credibility? Read the article