Leahy willing to investigate Dems on civil liberties, too

Now that Sen. Pat Leahy has said he will look at Congressional Democrats as well as BushCo Republicans on warrantless wiretapping, torture and other civil liberties issues, the GOP’s resistance to his “truth and reconciliation commission” idea has lost about its only rational plank.

Here’s one reason we need to investigate:

Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., who served as chief counsel for the Church Committee and has called for a new commission, said there is no telling what a thorough investigation may turn up. He recalled his shock as he sat in a secure room at the C.I.A. in 1975 and read that the agency had recruited the Mafia in a scheme to kill Fidel Castro.

“It may seem that we already know a lot,” Mr. Schwarz said. “But based on my experience, I’m certain there’s a lot that went on the last eight years that we still don’t know.”

Indeed, how many things besides TIP, Werewolf, etc., are still hidden from light?