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What if Instead of the Nuremberg Trials There Was Only a Truth Commission?

Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. April 29, 2009.

The lawyers who fought for the release of the torture memo explain why prosecutions, not a truth commission, are the only right thing.

Calls For a 'Truth Commission' Will Lead to a Whitewash: We Must Keep Pressing for Prosecutions

Michael Ratner, After Downing Street. April 23, 2009.

The conclusion of a commission process would likely be: the U.S. shouldn't have tortured, but it was a dangerous moment after 9/11.

A Closer Look at Obama's 'New' Position on Torture Prosecutions

Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. April 22, 2009.

Is Obama really opening the door for accountability? Or will the result be a bipartisan whitewash commission?

The Case for Establishing a Truth Commission for Bush's Torture and Spying Crew

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 6, 2009.

On Capitol Hill, debate has begun over forming a truth commission to shed light on the Bush administration’s secret and illegal terror polices.

On Truth Commission, Obama Is Playing Politics With Executive Abuses of Power

John Nichols, The Nation. February 10, 2009.

Obama is rebuffing even the most feeble attempts at accountability for the crimes of the Bush administration.

It's Our Responsibility as a Country to Pursue Justice for Bush Crimes

Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Huffington Post. February 2, 2009.

Naysayers warn against reckoning with the sins of the past, calling it partisan payback. I could not disagree more.