Pelosi foresees prosecution of senior Bush administration officials.

[kpete]

Source: Think Progress

Pelosi foresees prosecution of senior Bush administration officials.»
Last month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she is open to pursuing investigations of abuses by the Bush Justice Department. “I want to see the truth come forth,” she said. But in a new interview with Rolling Stone, Pelosi went a step further, saying that she believes some senior Bush officials — such as Harriet Miers, Josh Bolten, and Karl Rove — will be prosecuted:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26191970/pelosi_hits_back/print

RS: Do you foresee a scenario in which senior members of the Bush administration are actually prosecuted?

PELOSI: I think so. The American people deserve answers. Where we are now, in terms of prosecution of White House staff, is that we have charged them with contempt of Congress. We’re talking about Harriet Miers, Josh Bolten and Karl Rove. The natural course of events from here is that the speaker will determine what charge we’re going to pursue, because there are more than one. Under Bush, the Justice Department told the U.S. attorney not to prosecute the case. So the beat goes on — it just gets worse. We don’t know what will happen, because they’ve delayed it a long time.

Pelosi later said that “we should have a full examination” of the Bush administration’s alleged crimes, adding that what Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) “is putting forward, in terms of a truth-and-reconciliation committee, has always been helpful. It was helpful in South Africa, it was helpful in Rwanda.”

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/19/pelosi-prosecution-bush-officials/

[bemildred]

1. Wow, she compares it to South Africa and Rwanda.

:popcorn::popcorn:

[TEmperorHasNoClothes]

2. k & r - I sure hope she's right

[newfie11]

3. I will believe it when I see it. n/t

[tekisui]

4. knr!~ Maybe the obstructing pukes are giving her motivation.

[samplegirl]

5. ABOUT TIME!!!!!!!!

[Lucky Luciano]

6. I feel a strongly worded letter on the horizon! nt

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. Give her a call. 202-225-0100

Tell her that "Too big to prosecute" is unacceptable in a country that values the rule of law. After all, if those at the top don't have any respect for the law, why the hell should the rest of us?

[Iggo]

8. Yeah whatever, Nancy.

I ain't holding my breath.

[EndElectoral]

9. How about Gonzalez as well? Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Feith, and even Bush too.

I still resent Gerald Ford's decision to pardon Nixon.

He called it healing. There's no healing until people responsible for the abuse of power are held accountable. Ford's action was an attempt to avoiding partisan conflicts.

Let's hope Obama doesn't get the same BS fever.

[radfringe]

10. does that mean she found a table? n/t

[sasquatch]

11. I think she found a spine

[snake in the grass]

12. Until Meirs, Rove, and Bolten (for starters)...

...appear before Congress, whether by arresting them or not, and provide answers under oath, I'm going to consider this lip service. Were I a betting man I certainly wouldn't put any money on Pelosi doing anything. She could have gotten the ball rolling a long time ago so why should anyone believe her now?

[Enrique]

23. the first thing she did this session was to renew the contempt charges

literally the first day of the new Congress. Some pundits had predicted she would quietly let the cases expire.

[ThomWV]

13. Yes, prosecution for Contempt of Congress is fine, but we want the underlying crimes avenged

And avenged is the right word for the equal application of law to the rich and powerful with the same enthusiasm as to the weak and poor.

[leveymg]

14. Those are the 2nd-tier offenders, who may be prosecuted for the 2nd-tier political offenses

I predict the FISA violations and torture aren't going to make it to court - too many big figures widely dispersed in Washington to cast a net over.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

15. NOW you make noise about doing the right thing.

Too little, Nancy. And WAAAAAAAAYYY too late.

:mad:

[hootinholler]

16. WTF are you talking about...

You obstructionist bitch.

We should have already had a full examination starting in 2007. You had the power to let nothing move in this country until your questions were answered. You failed.

-Hoot

[stubtoe]

17. Wh - WHAT?

I thought it was all off the table! NOW she supports investigatios?

What the hell is really happening here?

[Wizard777]

18. Well I'll be damned. Will miracles never cease?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVS3WNt7yRU">Welcome Back!:hi:

[bvar22]

19. Pat Leahy supports a "WhiteWash" Commission.

NOT investigations and prosecutions.

[Martin Eden]

20. Better late than never?

Maybe, but it's too late to put impeachment back on the table.

[indepat]

21. Madame Speaker: this is much too little too late and all this will be your legacy imv

forevermore. :P

[Enrique]

22. what's up with the Rolling Stone link

it's not "page not found" but there's no story there.

[Solly Mack]

24. "It was helpful in South Africa, it was helpful in Rwanda."

So the victims of the government's war crimes will get to tell their story?

If we're going to use Rwanda and South Africa as a comparison....

And as I have read differing opinions (from victims) on the TRC in both countries, just how "helpful" they were depends on who you ask...

[bertman]

25. What happens when they slap her collaboratin' ass in leg irons for signing off on torture??

Yo Nancy!!! You were in on it, Bitch!! Remember the briefings where you said nothing??

Expect furious backpedalling in the near future.

[defendandprotect]

26. This is very good news -- and agree we should CALL PELOSI ...!!!

BUT . . .

I think she excluded "lies" about the illegal war on Iraq . . . .

and said they had all known it was LIES . . . !!!

Right, agree --

but then why take this "off the table" permanently???

[defendandprotect]

27. kick