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Accountability Debate: Less Amnesty, More Prosecution
After the hearing was over, he [Leahy] drew back on his vision of the role of amnesty in the process, suggesting in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that immunity would only rarely be granted and then in consultation with prosecutors at the Justice Department.
The hearing therefore seems to have been quite constructive: it has bridged differences between the House proposal backed by Speaker Pelosi, which is hostile to amnesty. The Leahy proposal hasn’t yet been reduced to writing, but it sounds more like the Conyers version every day.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/03/hbc-90004501
Maybe not so much the 4th branch, after all.
