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Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« on: February 09, 2009, 06:10:32 PM »
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is proposing a "truth commission" to investigate abuses of detainees, politically inspired moves at the Justice Department, and whole range of decisions made during the Bush administration.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said the primary goal of the commission would be to learn the truth rather than prosecute former officials, but said the inquiry should reach far beyond misdeeds at the Justice Department under Bush to include matters of Iraq prewar intelligence and the Defense Department.

Leahy outlined his suggestion for a "truth and reconciliation" commission during a speech at Georgetown University Monday.

"I'm doing this not to humiliate people or punish people but to get the truth out," he said.

The panel he envisions would be modeled after one that investigated the apartheid regime in South Africa. It would have subpoena power but would not bring criminal charges, he said.

Among the matters Leahy wants investigated by such a commission are: the firings of U.S. attorneys, treatment and torture of terror suspect detainees, and the authorization of warrantless wiretapping.
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2009, 06:25:18 PM »
Truth of course being what ever the press decide is the truth. . . . .
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2009, 06:26:33 PM »
Quote from: PoliCon on February 09, 2009, 06:25:18 PM
Truth of course being what ever the press decide is the truth. . . . .

As ordered to so decide by Dear Leader's Ministry of Troof.

The media couldn't take a dump without orders from on high.
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2009, 08:46:05 PM »

this will be the salem witch hunt, the sequel.
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2009, 09:29:09 PM »
What we actually need is for a pack of mutant badgers to devour Leahy, Durbin, Schumer, Byrd, McCaskill, and company.
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2009, 09:31:02 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on February 09, 2009, 09:29:09 PM
What we actually need is for a pack of mutant badgers to devour Leahy, Durbin, Schumer, Byrd, McCaskill, and company.

and all we have is one somewhat disturbed ptarmigan. :thatsright:





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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2009, 09:33:52 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on February 09, 2009, 09:29:09 PM
What we actually need is for a pack of mutant badgers to devour Leahy, Durbin, Schumer, Byrd, McCaskill, and company.

Have you any idea how tired I get of plugging VRWC secrets in this forum?  You were NOT supposed to say anything about the mutant badgers until AFTER they were released.

Damn, now we have to go back to the mutant killer shrews...
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2009, 09:40:20 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on February 09, 2009, 09:33:52 PM
Have you any idea how tired I get of plugging VRWC secrets in this forum?  You were NOT supposed to say anything about the mutant badgers until AFTER they were released.

Damn, now we have to go back to the mutant killer shrews...


How about mutant killer naked mole rats?
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2009, 10:53:46 PM »
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Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
Like letting the White House run the census?
Like pushing a "stimulus" that, according to the CBO will make things WORSE?
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2009, 11:36:26 PM »
MCCARTHYISM!
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2009, 03:49:13 AM »
Among the matters Leahy wants investigated by such a commission are: the firings of U.S. attorneys and the authorization of warrantless wiretapping.

So, they finally gonna investigate Bill Clinton, huh?

 
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2009, 08:28:45 AM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on February 09, 2009, 09:33:52 PM
Have you any idea how tired I get of plugging VRWC secrets in this forum?  You were NOT supposed to say anything about the mutant badgers until AFTER they were released.



You didn't get the update memo?


The program was canceled since we found out there's some things even mutant badgers won't eat.
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2009, 08:38:31 AM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on February 09, 2009, 09:33:52 PM
Have you any idea how tired I get of plugging VRWC secrets in this forum?  You were NOT supposed to say anything about the mutant badgers until AFTER they were released.

Damn, now we have to go back to the mutant killer shrews...


Hey, I didn't say a word about how they were hairless, bipedal, and bred to look like NBA basketball players, dammit!

Oops, never mind...
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2009, 08:52:13 AM »
Quote from: MarshallLaw on February 10, 2009, 08:28:45 AM

You didn't get the update memo?


The program was canceled since we found out there's some things even mutant badgers won't eat.

So now we will be overrun with mutant beavers....great. :thatsright:
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2009, 11:42:26 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on February 09, 2009, 06:26:33 PM
As ordered to so decide by Dear Leader's Ministry of Troof.

The media couldn't take a dump without orders from on high.
The press ranks higher than the politicians - in their own minds at least . . . .
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #15 on: February 10, 2009, 11:43:26 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on February 09, 2009, 09:40:20 PM
How about mutant killer naked mole rats?
what are you saying about Helen Thomas? You want to breed her???????  :mental:
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #16 on: February 10, 2009, 12:57:47 PM »
Quote from: PoliCon on February 10, 2009, 11:42:26 AM
The press ranks higher than the politicians - in their own minds at least . . . .

And yet they so gleefully line up to fellate the Politician in Chief.

Don't worry; you can say it here.  The Minions of the ministry of Troof suffer from extreme delusions of adequacy
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #17 on: February 10, 2009, 01:07:54 PM »
Lets find out the "truth" about who injected the new eugenics section into the "Porkus Maximus"  bill the idiots just voted for! Ceertainly, they have excepted themselves, because as far as I am concerned, not one of them is worth the $10 tylenol  the nurses foist on you.
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #18 on: February 10, 2009, 03:19:11 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on February 09, 2009, 09:31:02 PM
and all we have is one somewhat disturbed ptarmigan. :thatsright:

 :-)

SOMEWHAT??? :mental:
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #19 on: February 10, 2009, 03:31:39 PM »
Quote from: Crazy Horse on February 10, 2009, 03:19:11 PM
SOMEWHAT??? :mental:

"somewhat" accurately describes a very broad range. :-)
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2009, 03:44:45 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on February 09, 2009, 09:33:52 PM
Have you any idea how tired I get of plugging VRWC secrets in this forum?  You were NOT supposed to say anything about the mutant badgers until AFTER they were released.

Damn, now we have to go back to the mutant killer shrews...



Well we still have the mutant sea bass and sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads.
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2009, 06:01:28 PM »
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Two words, Mr. Leahy:


Fairness.

Doctrine.


Start there first and then we'll talk.
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #22 on: February 12, 2009, 05:34:37 AM »
Actually, the concept of Leahy heading up a "truth and reconciliation commission" sounds pretty Orwellian.
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #23 on: February 12, 2009, 07:38:40 AM »
Quote from: Sam Adams on February 12, 2009, 05:34:37 AM
Actually, the concept of Leahy heading up a "truth and reconciliation commission" sounds pretty Orwellian.
Yes, that was the pun.
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Re: Leahy: We Need a "Truth Commission" to root out Orwellian Abuses of Power
« Reply #24 on: February 12, 2009, 08:04:54 AM »
Quote from: Airwolf on February 11, 2009, 03:44:45 PM

Well we still have the mutant sea bass and sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads.



Ummmm, about those sea bass.......we don't have any left.

There was a calibration problem with the sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads.

On the bright side, we did have a nice seafood buffet that evening.
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