The liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org is to release this 30 second spot calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate how the Bush Administration arrived at the decision to institute torture as an instrument of state policy.

In addition House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pressing the case for the creation of a special "truth commission" to investigate the interrogation of terror suspects during the Bush administration. While several House committees already are examining the issue, the Speaker suggested "it might be further useful to have such a commission so that it removes all doubt that how we protect the American people is in a values-based way."

The San Francisco Democrat said she is open to holding potential witnesses, including former government officials, harmless from prosecution for cooperating with the commission, but only in a limited way. "I don't think you take immunity off the table," she said, suggested immunity could encourage cooperation. But Speaker Pelosi stressed immunity "should not be granted in a blanket way."

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