Bush, Cheney and Barney - We can dream, can't we?

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy has proposed setting up a truth and reconciliation commission to investigate potential crimes of the Bush administration.

Leahy said, “I think the Senate and the Congress as a whole has an oversight responsibility that has to be carried out here anyway. Now it is much easier with the cooperation of the administration. A lot of things with the subpoenas I issued the past few years, we got a lot of information but a lot of it was held back.”

For his part, President Obama has shown a reluctance to give his blessing to the proposal.  While not offering an opinion he did say his preference would be to look forward and not backwards.

I don’t think the Leahy proposal will go anywhere but a case can be made that Congress does have Constitutional authority to investigate.  For many, in both the US and the world, an investigation into the Bush administration’s crimes would be a form of closure.

One can only imagine the uproar Republicans would raise if Congress did go ahead with an investigation.  As we all know, Reps are more concerned with BJs in the oval office than actual war crimes.