The Spectacle Blog  Nothing But the Truth  By on 3.5.09 |
10:14AM  Sen. Leahy's efforts to launch an anti-Bush "truth
commission" are being dismissed as a fiasco. But they included
some intelligent moments as well, as when for instance George
Mason law professor (and longtime TAS contributor) Jeremy Rabkin
presented his opening statement. An excerpt (full statement is
appended in Comments):  …Suppose, after 9/11, the Bush
administration had established an "investigating commission" to
identify persons responsible for rallying support for terrorist
networks, for raising funds, organizing false identities and
providing other forms of assistance for terrorist networks.
Suppose in the interest of informing the public, the commission
had been authorized to publish its findings and name names of
individual suspects. Surely, such a procedures would have been
denounced by civil libertarians. Where there is enough evidence
for criminal prosecution, they would have said, the government
should secure indictments and pro