Jack Reed: ‘I don’t think we should be afraid’ of investigating Bush crimes.

[ProSense]

Jack Reed: ‘I don’t think we should be afraid’ of investigating Bush crimes.

A new USA Today/Gallup poll released today shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans support investigations into Bush era crimes like torture. Asked about the findings on MSNBC this afternoon, Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) added his name to a growing list of congressmen endorsing either congressional or Justice Department investigations into Bush administration wrongdoings:

I think we have to seriously investigate allegations of torture. … I think our political system as well as our judicial system is strong enough to conduct these investigations fairly and then to bring those people the law to justice. I don’t think we should be afraid of that.

Watch it:

(http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/12/reed-endorses-torture-investigations/">Jack Reed: We Must Investigation Torture Allegations)

After Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) called for an independent commission to investigate Bush crimes earlier this week, Rachel Maddow noted that Leahy joins party leaders Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), and Sens. Russ Feingold (D-WI), Carl Levin (D-MI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) in calling for investigations. “I think that what we have stumbled into here is an unexpected but rather blatant emerging consensus among powerful Democrats in Washington that alleged Bush-era crimes should be investigated and if need be, prosecuted.”

Nearly to two-thirds of Americans believe “there should be investigations into allegations that the Bush team used torture to interrogate terrorism suspects and its program of wiretapping U.S. citizens without getting warrants,” a new USA Today/Gallup poll finds. While 40 percent “favor criminal investigations,” about 25 percent “want investigations without criminal charges.”

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[debbierlus]

1. kick

[windoe]

2. So is there a fear of investigation?

Have they been threatened? I would not be surprised. Kucinich's articles of impeachment certainly spelled out reasons to investigate to anyone with a functional brain, so it has always appeared there were other reasons for delay.

Perhaps they are waiting for a consensus, a public demand for it, then they will have no choice but to proceed.

Can it begin already!!!!???? We have definite reasons to be afraid of NOT investigating such clear evidence of criminal activity. Our tenuous international reputation depends upon this as a start.

[BadgerKid]

3. Whackos got heard in court over the birth certificate

"issue"; surely there's got to be a way to start legal action ourselves.

[bdamomma]

4. they were probably wiretapped, didn't Rockefeller speculate he probably was.

Wow, that is my Senator Reed, and Whitehouse wants the same thing, hmm...get together with Senator Leahy, and do it!!!

[biopowertoday]

5. whow. so Pelosi is onboard. I did not expect that.