The new Dem appraoch to sanitizing torture is the Truth Commission instead of trials.  Just as Cocco tried to sweep torture under the rug with a new 9/11 Commission, the Senate is now trying to di it with a Truth Commission.

Since the US still funds prisons around the world where torture is still being carried out, no real prosecution of it is possible.  The torture qeustion in the mainstream media is simply a public relations one, how to get rid of the issue as quickly and effectively as possible.

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““We have a contemporary model for how to conduct a politically sensitive inquiry properly, without undue theatrics and with respect for classified information. It is the 9/11 commission, a sober and thorough panel that explored systemic failures that preceded the terrorist attacks and put to rest false claims—including the Bush administration’s contention that Saddam Hussein somehow was behind it. The panel operated outside the partisan hothouse of Congress, yet drew freely on the expertise of those inside and outside the government. Its final report became a best-seller, not because it inflamed political passion but because it was unconventionally—and thus, believably—dispassionate.”“
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Clearly this marie cocco is nuts. The attack of 9/11 was never investigated by our government with any kind of truth and reality. Why? It would have exposed the truly guilty of their part in this crime. When w & dick were ‘made’ to testify, on their terms, part of those terms were to not to ask questions that would incriminate. Thus all w & dick had to do was use blank stares and nod their heads, basically. Sure is easy to ‘testify’ when you know you’re not going to be held accountable because the whole commission was rigged from the start. Subsequent other investigations by reputible people prove it was more than just 2 planes hitting the 2 towers. And the fall of all 3 buildings, who are you going to believe, them or your eyes? No, not investigating, prosecuting and punishing the real masterminds of this act will only ensure a future attack, most likely even worse as those masterminds have indicated.

All you need to know about the 9/11 Commission can be summed up by one fact:
The budget for Paul Greengrass’ film ‘United 93’ was $18 million, the budget for the 9/11 Commission was $15 million. Both were very expensive lies. Anything the 9/11 Commission couldn’t lie about they left out. If the torture is investigated in the same way you will have a commission that claims everyone tortured was a terrorist and the torturers were ‘protecting the homeland’. You could call this ‘the Cheney doctrine’.

Nixon should have spent time in jail.  Also Johnson, Reagon, Bush I, Clinton and Bush II(pending).  Why so many? Because history tells(told) them they’d “get away with it.”  What do you have to say about that, Rupert Murdoch?

Sabagio Mauraeno, home alone trying to figure out how to program my dvd recorder.

I have called president Obama’s handling of “Torturegate” a colossal blunder.

Even before Obama released the torture memorandums he had decided that there would be no criminal investigations let alone prosecutions. He and his dumb advisers should have realized that the memorandums would trigger a tsunami of demands for investigations and prosecutions not only in the blogosphere but also in the MSM. For almost two weeks Keith Olbermann has kept Obama’s feet to the fire. Therefore, why release the memorandums and buy yourself a permanent Achilles heel? Or an assured place in the Hades of History?  To show how daring you are? The whole affair is not only a blunder, it is a textbook example of sheer stupidity.
Mr. Obama will forever be known as the president who thought that certain crimes should not (never?) be punished and that from a man whose hot air has breathed the word “accountability” on numerous occasions.

Model for an Accounting? Models of the Past? Models?  How soon we forget.  Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and the Preservation of the Southern Way of Life, The Filipino Uprising. Judgment at Nuremberg? The HUAC ?  McCarthy and Joseph Welch Confrontation? The Warren Commission? The Kerner Commission? Nixon Impeachment hearings? Medgar Evers Trial?  , The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Irangate, the Contras and Ollie North? What do all ot these have in common?  Each event was thought to be THE major challenge to The Union,  the American way of life and our Constitutional form of government. All had a Commission to make sure they didn’t happen again. None of the Principal Perps of the events spent time in jail.  Major Media demonstrates that it has no sense of history.

Sabagio Mauraeno home alone in DeKalb County Georgia, wondering if anybody out there ever cracks a history book these days.

Is this a sick joke?

The 9/11 Commission was the biggest cover-up in American history.

The two puppet leaders, Kean and Hamilton, wrote a book charging they were “set up to fail.”

Marie Coco knows better, but she is of course a paid “professional” mainstream journalist in the end.

9/11 OMISSIONS & DISTURBING FACTS

What Cocco, and Truthdig, is suggesting here is to sanitize the truth about torture the same way the 9/11 commission sanitized the truth about 9/11.  However the US power system has become so corrupt that it would just raise questions and objectiions as the 9/11 farce did.  So, with marginal effects and more sanitizing rhetoric, Obama is going to contnue to Look Forward rather than Backward.

The front page NYTimes suggeted that we ‘move on from torture?’  The most likely outcome.  The US powerstructure is too barbaric, masequrading under the policies of Universal Good.

If you look at a commision as a stimulas package for unemployed politicans it might prove usefull. But past commisions have proven to be less than adiquit in finding the truth.

This article is absolute rubbish. 911 was a rightist coup in the USA, as the center of a global cabal. What is wrong with this Cocco head? No one with a lick of common sense believed the commission. The crimes to be investigated include the 911 commission for god’s sake. O’Bama is in over his head in all this, but because of his Harvard education he still sounds good as we all drown along in the deceits decades old. Not to go on too big a bummer here, but, “Black man given worst job in America”, is about all the truth we’ll ever hear from the ruling elite.

I suppose, like the 9/11 commission, this one, too, would be populated by right-wing scumbags eager to keep the peasants in line.

I suppose, like the 9/11 commission, this one, too would be populated by right-wing scumbags eager to keep the peasants in line.

The 911 Commission as a MODEL? Now I’ve heard it all.

Ms. Cocco, as a reporter you might try, uh, reading about the commission. Start with:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/04/not-only-did-bush-administration-adopt.html

But don’t forget these 206 timeline entries:

http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&investigations;:_a_detailed_look=911Commission

Can’t wait for the torture commission’s dimestore novel.

Who are you trying to fool?

http://harpers.org/WhitewashAsPublicService.html