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Leahy Proposes Panel To Investigate Bush Era

 

Published 2/10/2009 by Philip Rucker at Wash Post In Congress

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday called for a "truth commission" to investigate controversial actions of the Bush administration, including the politically inspired firings of U.S. attorneys, the treatment and torture of terror suspects and the authorization of warrantless... (link)

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