He wants said truth via commission.  I honestly think this is the best chance we got to figure out what Cheney and company did.  I don’t want criminal trials–I mean, I do, but they’re just not going to happen.  Better to just know.

Leahy said such a panel would not seek to build criminal cases against Bush officials but to “get to the bottom of what happened — and why — so we make sure it never happens again.” Some Democrats have called for criminal investigations of former Bush DOJ officials, but President Obama and now Attorney General Eric Holder have resisted such calls.

Leahy, though, suggested that doing nothing is not an acceptable option, and then offered what he called “A middle ground to find the truth.”

“People would be invited to come forward and share their knowledge and experiences, not for purposes of constructing criminal indictments, but to assemble the facts,” Leahy said “If needed, such a process could involve subpoena powers, and even the authority to obtain immunity from prosecutions in order to get to the whole truth.”