Sen. Charles Schumer told Fox's Chris Wallace that he could support limited prosecution for Bush officials that participated in torture or broke other laws.
WALLACE: Let's turn, if we can, to foreign policy. We were talking with John McCain about this question about investigating what went on the last eight years. Speaker Pelosi told me last week that Congress doesn't have the right to ignore what went on the last eight years, if there was law breaking. As we said, the Attorney General designate is leaving that possibility open. You heard John McCain just say that's the worst we could do, try to look back at the past eight years and try to second-guess what a bunch of people in the intelligence field did. What's your feeling on this issue?
SCHUMER: My feeling is generally that of president Obama -- that we should be looking forward, not backward. How do we correct the mistakes of the past and how do we keep ourselves secure and preserve vital liberty. If there are egregious cases, I don't think you can say, blanket, no prosecutions. If there are egregious cases, yes, you have to look at them. But overall, the tone of Barack Obama and Attorney General Holder -- I've spoken to him privately on this as well as what he said at the hearing -- is not to spend too much of our time, a lot of our time looking backward and pointing fingers. It's rather going forward and making the policy better in the future.
