| Last March the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence launched a review of the CIA detainee interrogations to probe the effectiveness of the methods they used that led to permanent injury and death of detainees - or as we say in the reality based community - torture.
Last month, the Attorney General appointed a career prosecutor to investigate the allegations of torture and abuse committed by CIA operatives and contractors
Yesterday, the republicans, led by Kit Bond of Missouri, stomped their little feet, picked up their skirts, tossed their curls and flounced out. Apparently one of them looked up the word "investigation" and when he told the rest of the republicans on the committee what it meant, they panicked and fled.
"Had Mr. Holder honored the pledge made by the President to look forward, not backwards, we would still be active participants in the Committee's review," the ranking Republican on the intelligence panel, Sen. Christopher S. Bond of Missouri, said in a statement. "What current or former CIA employee would be willing to gamble his freedom by answering the Committee's questions? Indeed, forcing these terror fighters to make this choice is neither fair nor just."
The Justice Department, as is its practice, asked the committee not to provide immunity to any witnesses, according to a source on Capitol Hill who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
No witnesses have yet appeared before the committee, and another official said the issue of immunity was a red herring because the panel has not offered immunity to anyone in many years.
Bond's announcement was first reported by CQ.com, the Web site of Congressional Quarterly. A spokeswoman said that Bond's decision was conveyed to other Republican members of the committee and that none has objected.
Serves the pathetic DINO Feinstein right. When Democrats prostrate themselves before the minority in a foolish quest to achieve bipartisanship for it's own sake, they deserve it when it blows up in their faces. Chickenshit morons like Feinstein contort themselves into pretzels trying not to present a report that will sound like a partisan attack on the Bush administration.
My response to that utterly evil banality is - why the hell not? The entire eight-year reign of the Cheney-Chimpy administration was a partisan attack against this country, so why are they so fucking afraid to admit it? |
