From the outset, Wright and Byrd’s opposition to any consideration of presidential impeachment, no matter what evidence is unearthed, loses them their biggest advantage in the proceedings. Not only will committee Republicans feel more confident in pulling the investigation away from sensitive and potentially embarrassing matters, the committee will ignore important evidence of Reagan’s own involvement in the Iran-Contra decision-making process, including recordings of telephone conversations showing Reagan discussing financing the Contras with foreign leaders.

The Democratic and Republican leaders of Congress’s joint Iran-Contra investigation begin meetings to discuss the logistics of the upcoming public hearings (see May 5, 1987). Speaker of the House Jim Wright (D-TX) later recalls that House committee chairman “Lee Hamilton and I bent over backwards to be fair to the Republicans.” Many of the committee Republicans are not predisposed to return the favor. Moderate Republican Warren Rudman (R-NH), the co-chairman of the Senate committee, recalls that deep divides were forming between the committee’s moderate Republicans and the more hardline Republicans led by Dick Cheney (R-WY). “The meetings were very, very intensive,” Rudman will recall. Cheney helps put together the Republican committee members’ staff, and includes a number of hardline Reagan loyalists: the Justice Department’s Bruce Fein; the former assistant general counsel to the CIA, David Addington; and others. Notably, it is during the Iran-Contra hearings where Cheney and Addington form their lasting professional association.

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hanshiro the antlion Says:

Besides, “ConservativeForProgress” is an oxymoron..

Nah…just a moron…

Eugene: I have posted links to back my story. You have posted nothing but name calling. Typical.
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You are such a LIAR. Your links do not in ANY way back up your ignorant claims. You are a troll. You KNOW you are a liar and just keep lying or are so brainwashed by Rush Limbaugh that you are incapable of independent thought and cant even SEE that we have completely debunked your claim is in ANY way backed up by your stupid link. If you dont like being called a liar I have a simple solution STOP LYING

Your article does not support your contention. This paragraph pretty much broadsides your implication:

He stressed the mistreatment did not appear to be directed from above, but was an initiative undertaken by frustrated U.S. army and navy jailers on the ground. It did not seem to be a reaction against the election of Obama, a Democrat who has pledged to close the prison camp within a year, but rather a realization that there was little time remaining before the last 241 detainees, all Muslim, are released.

On the other hand, the torture of detainees under bush was directed from above. Q.E.D.

You really have nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch.

How hard could it be…?

I hear voices from the Senate asking, “Where is that Impeachment?”

Will John Conyers respond?

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April 21st, 2009 at 1:01 pm
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We don’t need to post links to verify that you are a moron. Your posts are proof enough.

PWN

At this point you have gone beyond stupid. You are a liar and a fool. A punk who is trolling. You KNOW it is BS you dont care because you are a liar. You LIKE to tell lies you worthless punk. Go sit in the corner and STFU

Congratulations you have combined impressive stupid with long ago debunked talking points. Does the Limborg hivemind give extra credit for that?

Are you STILL pushing this ignorant meme? Arent you embarassed to be so stupid? Obama should be punished because a story says the guards at Guantanamo are ON THIER OWN abusing the inmates??? MY GOD you are stupid

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is leaving the door to open to possible prosecution of Bush administration officials who devised harsh terrorism-era interrogation tactics.

He also said Tuesday that he worries about the impact of high-intensity hearings on how detainees were treated under former President George W. Bush. But Obama did say, nevertheless, he could support a Hill investigation if it were conducted in a bipartisan way.

Obama has said he doesn’t support charging CIA agents and interrogators who took part in waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics, acting on advice from superiors that such practices were legal. But he also said that it is up to the attorney general whether to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who wrote the memos approving these tactics.

Why six to eight months? that’s a long time from now.