Rachel Maddow is worried the statute of limitations will expire for some of Bush's most heinous crimes - including torture. Daphne Eviatar says Rep. John Conyers has proposed extending the statute of limitations. Eviatar also says granting immunity to torturers to testify before a Truth Commmission would violate our international obligations. Eviatar wrote a great article about the controversy over a Truth Commission.

At Monday's press conference, Huffpo's Sam Stein asked President Obama about Sen. Pat Leahy's proposed Truth Commission. Rachel Maddow checked in with Stein about subsequent events. Leahy chatted with White House Counsel Gregg Craig, but it's not clear how Craig responded. Leahy told Stein he can move ahead without Obama's approval. Maddow pointed out that witnesses who refuse to testify under immunity could be prosecuted. Stein said Huffpo readers don't want criminals in the Bush-Cheney administration to get immunity. Go Huffpo readers!

Rachel Maddow did an excellent segment on Senator Pat Leahy's call for a Truth Commission. Despite Leahy's brushoffs, Maddow kept returning to the question of prosecution. Leahy's objection to prosecution is simple - and ludicrous:

You're gonna have some people who say "let's go ahead and prosecute everybody," that could take 10 or 15 years.

Senator Leahy, are you unaware that both Bush and Cheney have publicly confessed to authorizing waterboarding and other forms of torture? Given these confessions, why would prosecution take more than 10-15 minutes?

Dick Cheney won't visit Vermont because the towns of Marlboro and Brattleboro instructed their Town Attorneys to indict George Bush and Dick Cheney for war crimes, and instructed their police to arrest them if they enter the town. Ask your municipal government to join them!