Bush Truth Commission

 Senator Patrick Leahy has a website with a petition for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate constitutional abuses by the Bush-Cheney White House.

 This from their site:

http://www.bushtruthcommission.com/

 

Full Petition Text:

I hereby join Senator Patrick Leahy's call for the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission, to investigate the Bush-Cheney Administration's constitutional abuses so we make sure they never happen again. These abuses may include the use of torture, warrantless wiretapping, extraordinary rendition, and executive override of laws.

A truth and reconciliation commission should be tasked with seeking answers so that we can develop a shared understanding of the failures of the recent past. Rather than vengeance, we need a fair-minded pursuit of what actually happened. The best way to move forward is getting to the truth and finding out what happened -- so we can make sure it does not happen again.

Signed by:

[Your name] 

If you support this type of inquiry into the questionable practices of the Bush-Cheney administration, please take the time to go sign the petition.

(You can view an argument in favor of this approach on the Progressive Liberty Blog.)

"[We don't want to] turn the page before we read the page. Basically, what we are saying is: 'Don't cover up the past.'"

-Sen. Patrick Leahy