I always found this whole "looking forward, not back" excuse for blocking investigation highly specious.
Politics. The same enemy of truth that, according to Tom Ridge, may have played a role in the question of whether to raise the terror threat levels during the Bush years.
What with Lithuania announcing today that it's
launching an inquiry into allegations that it hosted a secret CIA prison, maybe it's time the rest of the world* set up boycottamerica.com
(*or maybe just Scotland
)