July 13, 2009 /

Yes He Should

The big news is that the pressure is on for President Obama to reverse himself and start looking into the allegations of law breaking by the Bush administration: Leading Democrats on Sunday demanded investigations of how a highly classified counterterrorism program was kept secret from the Congressional leadership on the orders of Vice President Dick […]

The big news is that the pressure is on for President Obama to reverse himself and start looking into the allegations of law breaking by the Bush administration:

Leading Democrats on Sunday demanded investigations of how a highly classified counterterrorism program was kept secret from the Congressional leadership on the orders of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, who is the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Fox News Sunday called it a “big problem.” Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, on “This Week” on ABC, agreed that the secrecy “could be illegal” and demanded an inquiry.

Mr. Obama said this weekend that he had asked his staff members to review the mass killing of prisoners in Afghanistan by local forces allied with the United States as it toppled the Taliban regime there. The New York Times reported Saturday that the Bush administration had blocked investigations of the matter.

When Obama said he wouldn’t look backwards I had a feeling this would happen. Just the things we learned were being done by Bush through media leaks and whistleblowers was appalling. Once Bush didn’t have control over the government anymore and people could talk more freely, then it only made sense that we would find out all the previous revelations were only the tip of the iceberg. Let’s pull this band aide off quickly and get the truth out there. Once that happens then we can move forward.

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