Democrats keep fighting the good fight:
Seeking information about detention of terrorism suspects, abuse of detainees and government secrecy, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are reviving dozens of demands for classified documents that until now have been rebuffed or ignored by the Justice Department and other agencies.
“I expect real answers, or we’ll have testimony under oath until we get them,” Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, who will head the committee beginning in January, said in an interview this week. “We’re entitled to know these answers, and in many instances we don’t get them because people are hiding their mistakes. And that’s no excuse.”
...he described (Bush) as having been “obsessively secretive.” His aides have identified more than 65 requests he has made to the Justice Department or other agencies in recent years that have been rejected or permitted to languish without reply.
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Of course we see many of the departments being asked for information citing the "it would disturb national security" bit without showing HOW, or asking what security there IS if we're TRUSTING that we can hold the government accountable... Its somewhat disturbing.
Somehow, i doubt we'll see greater cooperation from the administration, and I think most of us are fully behind Leahy's promise to make them testify under oath, until we get the information we need. Its about time.
The more they dig in their heels on this, the more peoples eyes open that the REpublicans CANNOT be trusted, and the more skepticism their attempts to dodge will be greeted with.
Or maybe I'm still post-midterm optimistic! Could be either one.
Any predictions?
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