Bush Officials Delay CIA Tape Probe

The question is "when will Congress have enough of the Bush administration doing whatever it wants with impunity"?

The story today is that Congress and President George W. Bush are headed for a confrontation Saturday as US lawmakers accused the Justice Department of blocking their probe into whether the CIA tried to cover up torture by destroying interrogation tapes.


Lawmakers from both parties expressed outrage after Bush's Attorney General Michael Mukasey asked a congressional panel to postpone its investigation of the destroyed videotapes on grounds it could jeopardize the Justice Department's own inquiry into the affair.

This will be in the news the next couple of days, but will it survive the Congressional hiatus, as they take their Christmas break shortly! I think by the time they come back in January, we will be on to other stories, and this will be forgotten, just as Bush plans, and their delaying tactics will have won the day again!


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