Should the U.S. stop torture investigations?

[ZombieHorde]

This poll was inspired by http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4069041">this thread in Latest Breaking News.

[IndianaGreen]

1. The US should widen torture investigations to include John Yoo's role

The DOJ lawyers that wrote the "torture is not torture" memo should also be investigated.

[marew]

3. Amen! n/t

[invictus]

2. +1

[TheKentuckian]

4. Stop?!? Nope. The scope should be increased

Of course I'd support a system wide reboot of the CIA, so I'm not going to have a lot of weight with the anti-investigation folks. I think this system is broken and the people very compromised in a variety of areas and for tonnes of reasons.

[murdoch]

5. The important thing...

...is that the truth be revealed.

Is this a democracy or not? Who the hell are the former CIA chiefs, which include some real thugs like Porter Goss, to tell Obama he can't even find out what the CIA is doing and has been doing?

I can understand asking for leniency asking for leniency for someone who broke the law but claims they felt they were working under Bush's orders. But to abort the investigation before it even begins? Ridiculous. Porter Goss, James Woolsey etc. all think they are above the law.

Where was their outrage when Valerie Plame was outted as a CIA officer by Bush's crowd?

[rug]

6. Whoever's voted yes should have their fingernails ripped out.

[bigwillq]

7. No!

It should continue.

[Usrename]

8. Is there any legal way to stop the investigations?

I don't know of any way, short of a court ordering it, that the investigations could be stopped.

I mean, when the former CIA heads ask the President to intercede, aren't they in fact asking him to obstruct justice?

How can they justfy putting it in writing that they want him to break the law?