from the DFA blog, something I had forgotten about:
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has issued a statement that was less specific, but in some ways just as telling:
"These confirmation hearings will be a rare opportunity for the Senate and the public to finally get some answers on several issues for which the Administration has resisted accountability, including its use of the PATRIOT Act, the lack of cooperation with Congress on oversight, and the policies that have been rejected by the courts on the treatment of detainees. This also may be the only remaining forum in which to examine more fully the steps that were taken to weaken U.S. policy on torture in the period that led to the prison scandals at Abu Ghraib and Afghanistan."
Now there is a hearing worth staying home or tivoing to see.
This will be lovely, and I'm sure the Real conservatives are just as curious as Sen. Leahy.