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Almost unnoticed by the news media, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) chaired a Judiciary subcommittee hearing today on “Restoring the Rule of Law.”

The subcommittee heard more than two and a half hours of testimony from the witnesses, who came from all sides of the political spectrum and included former members of Congress, the military and the Bush and Clinton administrations along with legal and constitutional experts. Some of the witnesses at Tuesday’s hearing suggested creating an independent commission to fully examine Bush’s eight years in office once he leaves. (The idea sounded similar to plans advanced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich for a “Truth and Reconciliation” Commission.)

Two weeks ago, Vice Presidential candidate Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) promised that an Obama-Biden government would go through Bush administration evidence with “a fine-toothed comb” and pursue criminal charges if necessary.

“If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation,” he said, “they will be pursued, not out of vengeance, not out of retribution - out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no one, no attorney general, no president, no one is above the law.”

So, is this going to happen? Is our government going to restore the rule of law next year?

Too bad they can’t do it NOW!

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