Appoint a Special Prosecutor

I agree with Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at The George Washington University.

It's time to appoint a special prosecutor to examine the lead up to the Iraq War and the allegations of torture conducted and condoned by the Bush Administration.

An independent prosecutor will have the authority and time-frame for determining if laws were broken and by whom. He will have full subpoena power to call everyone from presidents to members of congress to the CIA, to military to contracted staff. There can be appropriate protections in place to conceal the identities of CIA operatives, as needed.

I just feel this is the only way to put this sad episode behind us because members of Congress are turning the discussion of torture into PR event with one side accusing the other of wrong doing.   Partisan politics will get us no closer to figuring out what happened and how to prevent it from occurring future.

It's not going to be fun for anyone. But we are a country governed by the rule of law. Lets let an independent prosecutor carry the ball and make the appropriate determinations.