Senator Leahy evidently has no intention of letting the gross transgressions of the bush administration simply disappear into the memory hole.
I know some here think Leahy is simply a blusterer. I'm not one of them by any means, and I look forward to hearings on this critical issue.
During a press conference today, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, echoed President-elect Obama’s vow to end torture and pledged to continue investigating the Bush administration’s torture policies. "All that is going to be reviewed," he said:
Q: Do you think Congress should continue to seek a final reckoning of what happened behind the White House orchestration of the firings of the U.S. attorneys and also the adoption of the policies of torture?
LEAHY: Personally I would like to know exactly what happened because — more of a past is prologue kind of thing. I would like to make sure that it doesn’t happen again. Torture is going to be a major issue. Torture is going to be a major issue. ... And so all that’s going to be reviewed