Fri 27 Feb 2009
Why a war crimes fact-finding commission could uniquely enable prosecutions
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Glenn Greenwald Salon 2/25/09
When Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy announced a couple of weeks ago that he intends to introduce legislation to create a “Truth Commission” to investigate Bush war crimes, it seemed to be the type of meaningless announcement for which Senate Democrats generally and Leahy specifically are known: nicely symbolic and pseudo-principled but ultimately entirely inconsequential (more…)