(Senator) Dodd Open To Torture Prosecutions

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Source: New Haven Independent

Making parallels to the Nuremberg trials, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd told a gathering of liberal bloggers in New Haven he’d support bringing charges against any Bush administration officials found responsible for the policy of waterboarding terrorism suspects.

The five-term Connecticut senator made the comments Sunday at The Playwright, his latest New Haven stop in what has become a nonstop Dodd Career Resuscitation Tour in the wake of recent damaging press disclosures.

“Not to prosecute people and pursue them when these acts occurred,” he said following the gathering, “is in a sense to invite them to do it again in a future administration.”

The event was as notable for what Dodd said — the torture remarks; a vow not “to get burned again” on executive bonuses — as for where he said it. A week after the last D.C.-based reporter from a Connecticut newspaper was laid off, Dodd turned to local bloggers to help communicate with constituents back home.

Read more: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/05/dodd_open_to_to.php

[derby378]

1. He'd do well to do more than just support prosecutions

Maybe he could help kickstart investigations? And none of this "truth commission" whitewash, either.

[dgibby]

2. What you said. Perfect!

[lsewpershad]

3. Totally agree

[No Elephants]

4. SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!

[Senator]

5. K&R

[No Elephants]

6. The other facts about Dodd mentioned in that article are not going to help him get re-elected.