Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank, no friend of Bush 43 or his policies, reports that Wednesday's Truth Commission hearing chaired by Senator Leahy was a yawner. Here's the opening paragraphs, but read the entire article for the full sense of Leahy's exercise in futility and flailing:
Let's be truthful about it: Things aren't looking so good for the Truth Commission.
Chief Pursuer of Truth Patrick Leahy cut a lonely figure yesterday as he tried to persuade the Senate Judiciary Committee to endorse his plan for such a commission to probe the Bush administration's treatment of suspected terrorists.
About half of the audience seats in the committee room were full. The press tables: mostly empty. Even the dozen demonstrators in orange jumpsuits got bored with the proceedings and left before the hearing ended. Of the 19 members of the committee, only three, including Leahy, the chairman, bothered to question the witnesses.
The ranking Republican, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, used his opening statement to tease Truth-Seeker Leahy. He inserted into the record an article titled "Leahy's un-American activities commission," along with an accompanying photo showing a perturbed Leahy. "I would ask for you, Mr. Chairman, also to put in this elegant picture of the chairman," Specter proposed.
"I could care less about the picture," Leahy grumbled.
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