{"id":192265,"date":"2009-04-23T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/23\/props-to-senator-pat-leahy\/"},"modified":"2009-04-23T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T10:13:00","slug":"props-to-senator-pat-leahy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/23\/props-to-senator-pat-leahy\/","title":{"rendered":"Props to Senator Pat Leahy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He is saying that he <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/thenote\/2009\/04\/leahy-will-defy.html\">will not allow bipartisanship to be used as an excuse to delay an investigation into torture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Patrick Leahy pledged today that if he cannot get the votes to create a bipartisan commission to investigate U.S. torture policy under former President George W. Bush &#8212; and regardless of calls by President Obama that any inquiry be bipartisan &#8212; he&#8217;ll conduct his own partisan inquiry in the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Leahy&#8217;s comments after a press conference on Capitol Hill today exposed a growing rift between Democrats in Congress and the White House on how to seek accountability from Bush-era Justice officials for condoning torture in the aftermath of 9\/11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Leahy is right, and Obama is wrong, morally, legally, and politically.<\/p>\n<p>When you do not prosecute, these people <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">keep coming back<\/span>, which is why you had so many Watergate and Iran-Contra alums in Bush&#8217;s staff and cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is saying that he will not allow bipartisanship to be used as an excuse to delay an investigation into torture: Sen. Patrick Leahy pledged today that if he cannot get the votes to create a bipartisan commission to investigate U.S. torture policy under former President George W. Bush &#8212; and regardless of calls by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,972,978,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-justice","category-politics","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}