House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ups pressure for 'truth' panel on torture
source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/04/23/2009-04-23_pelosi_ups_pressure_for_truth...
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Pelosi on Wednesday seized on Obama's openness to prosecuting top Bush administration lawyers who formulated policies to strip, slap, shove and waterboard detainees said to be among Al Qaeda's worst in U.S. custody after 9/11.
"It gives further impetus among members to have some kind of truth commission as to what happened," Pelosi said. "I do not think immunity should be granted to everyone in a blanket way," she added.
Republicans oppose a probe.
Obama has insisted that CIA operators who grilled detainees shouldn't be charged for following orders from Washington. But he suggested ex-President Bush's legal team might not be off the hook, and Attorney General Eric Holder said prosecutors will "follow the evidence."
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masterzip
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She is also forming a "lying commission" so government officials know what to say to the press, when they finally know what the truth really is.
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fishmanalan86
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She looks like The Joker or something...she could play him in the next Batman.
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Flezzer
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That woman is such a monger! Why is she always getting involved when least needed. Obama is already doing this he needs her to get working on legislation in the house.
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Former Vice President Cheney claims waterboarding helped thwart plots against the U.S.
Several former officials disputed Cheney. One retired counterterror official who had read CIA cables said most were plots that Mohammed "was only remotely thinking of undertaking [that] didn't even reach the planning stage."
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