Obama ‘quashed’ 9/11 Commission-style torture panel

By GottaLaff

It appears that, finally, BushCo will be properly dissected, and we will get to the truth. Obama is doing what he feels is right, and hopefully additional efforts will eventually pay off. I agree with Prez O. IMHO, we can do a whole lot better than using a 9/11 style commission to get to the bottom of all this:

Yesterday, President Obama said he would support a "bipartisan" congressional commission examining the Bush administration's torture program. [...]

There was, according to a senior official, considerable support among Obama's advisers for the creation of a 9-11 Commission-style investigation as an alternative to releasing the Justice Department memos. But Obama quashed it. "His concern was that would ratchet the whole thing up," the official said. "His whole thing is, I banned all this. This chapter is over. What we don't need now is to become a sort of feeding frenzy where we go back and re-litigate all this."

According to Balz, Obama was "reluctant to give a presidential imprimatur to a national commission that would keep the controversy alive for months and months and months." Instead, Obama chose to release the OLC torture memos. Multiple members of Congress have signaled they will try to move forward on a commission.

Commissions schmomissions. Actually, any avenue that will lead to evidence that will hang BushCo is fine with me. I'll take any and all offers.