Dodd: Torture investigations may need to go as high as Cheney’s office.

[ProSense]

Dodd: Torture investigations may need to go as high as Cheney’s office.

In a new interview with Connecticut bloggers, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) unequivocally states that he believes waterboarding is torture and comes out in support of Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-VT) Commission of Inquiry into a “comprehensive, nonpartisan, independent review of what happened.” He also compares today’s situation to the Nuremberg Trials — for which his father was a prosecutor — and criticizes the Obama administration for releasing the documents and then resisting calls for investigations:

DODD: I don’t know who the genius was in the room that night when they were discussing this, but if you’re going to make a decision to release the documents, I presume everyone of us here would then have a follow-up question, which is: What are you going to do with that information? <...>

In a sense, not to prosecute people or pursue them when these acts have occurred is, in a sense, to invite it again in some future administration.

When someone then pointed out that “a lot of this stuff seems to point toward Cheney’s office,” Dodd replied, “You gotta go where you gotta go.” Watch it:

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UPDATE Yesterday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) wrote an op-ed in the National Law Journal asking President Obama to not rule out prosecutions on torture.

Gonzales: Torture "may be necessary in the future"

They Are Telling Us They Will Torture Again

[Duer 157099]

1. If by "may" they mean "damn well better" then I agree

Grrrrr, if that rat bastard dies before this all comes about, it will be incredibly frustrating.

[pleah]

2. "May"?

:eyes:

[ClarkUSA]

3. Good. It's the Congress' and AG's job to make these statements, not Pres. Obama's.