Congressman Jerrold Nadler has called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate George W. Bush. Bush has now admitted that he personally ordered the U.S. government to torture prisoners.

Explaining the background of the Law Enforcement Torture Prevention Act.

If Representative Candice Miller gets her way, and a torture investigation is blocked, then a harmful precedent will indeed be set: Presidents will learn that they have the power to do whatever they want, and will not be held responsible for breaking the law.

On Wednesday, September 9, Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. of Illinois added his name in cosponsorship of H.R. 104, a bill to establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties. This bill, introduced by Rep. John Conyers, would create an independent investigative body with subpoena powers to unearth the nature and extent of [...]

Does anyone really think that flag burning is one of the top problems in the USA? Apparently, Representative Ann Kirkpatrick does.

By altering, rather than ending, the practice of rendition, Barack Obama, like George W. Bush before him, is making an implicit claim that he has the right to act outside the law. We opposed that claim when it was made by President Bush, and we therefore oppose that claim by President Obama as well.

That Peter King is calling for such an approach, and an any-means-necessary philosophy, in order to protect the use of torture, ought to serve as a warning to his constituents that King is losing his mental balance. An approach to Homeland Security that destroys the United States in order to protect it is not something that most Americans are willing to support.

Senator Patrick Leahy has responded to the release of the documents by renewing his call for a commission to investigate the use of torture in a comprehensive way.

The Geneva Conventions, which have the force of law in the United States, require government to investigate officials who organize programs of torture. Why won’t Attorney General Eric Holder comply with the law?

It’s been six weeks now since a single member of Congress added his or her cosponsorship to H.R. 104, a bill to create an independent commission to investigate instances of torture and illegal surveillance by the United States government and report to Congress with the results. The momentum for such a commission, long weak, now [...]