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HR Judiciary chair wants commission to investigate Bush civil liberties policies

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today introduced six bills on the first day of the 111th Congress. Today’s legislation includes a proposal to create a War Powers Commission...

National Commission on Presidential War Powers and Civil Liberties will establish a Blue Ribbon Commission comprised of experts outside government service to investigate the broad range of policies of the Bush administration that were undertaken by the Bush administration under claims of unreviewable war powers.
Co-sponsors: Nadler, Johnson, Jackson-Lee, Cohen, Gutierrez, Delahunt, Wasserman Schultz
Read entire article at HR Gov website