President Barack Obama seems awfully conflicted about the continuing debate over what to do about the torture of U.S. prisoners during the Bush Administration. There are increasing calls for a special independent commission to investigate the charges. But Obama Administration politicos--including the President--are balking, contending (with increasing desperation, it seems) that the nation ought to be looking ahead and not back. What they don't seem to be considering is that a) the President shouldn't be in this particular loop at all: b) 'independent commissions' like the 9/11 Commission may be commissions, but they are neither independent nor nonpartisan; and c) this is a question of law, not policy.
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