On April 27, former State Department chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson told the Huffington Post that several lawyers in the Bush administration should be “at a minimum, disbarred” and that the government should appoint “a special prosecutor such as Fitzgerald, armed to the teeth, and give him or her carte blanche” to investigate and prosecute officials such as Rumsfeld and Feith for allegedly sanctioning torture. I emailed Wilkerson to see if he also supported the investigation of congressional leaders. Based on this 2007 Washington Post story that reported Pelosi was briefed on waterboarding and Pelosi’s own admission that she knew harsh techniques were approved but not that they were being used, I asked Wilkerson, should she resign or be impeached? Here’s Wilkerson’s response:
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