Will torture probe target Bush officials? Top Dem says ’stand by’
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Will torture probe target Bush officials? Top Dem says ’stand by’
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on MSNBC that while the Senate has indeed been examining finer details of CIA torture authorized by the Bush administration, “chain of command” issues are still to come.
“So, I guess, stand by,” he told Rachel Maddow on Thursday night.
“We know [the intelligence committee is getting] a comprehensive look at what happened to those high-value detainees,” said Maddow. “Does it only look at what the CIA did, or will it look at the chain of command? Whether or not instruction came from the White House, the Office of the Vice President [...] ?”
“We’re not at the stage yet in the investigation, where those chain of command issues are yet raised,” he said. “I hope, very much, that it will [be]. I believe [evidence] implicates chain of command issues and I think that that’s a critical question.”
“But, it’s not what the intelligence committee is looking at right now?” Maddow queried. “And, we should not expect that, that will be in the intelligence committee’s report when it comes out in six months or so?”
via Raw Story » Will torture probe target Bush officials? Top Dem says ’stand by’.
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