For all my friends who do not get MSNBC as part of their cable package: Here’s the latest controversy over the Obama administration talking about looking forward, not back, which we broke back in December, like not investigating Bush administration officials for torture…

By all means let of CIA agents who followed orders off, and go after the lawyers who wrote the illegal policy memos in the first place, Alberto Gonzalez and Harriet Myers for starters. Only the little guys went down for Abu Ghraig.

The House Judiciary Committee is supposed to be engaged in that task. It just takes time. But there are also political pressures to weigh, and the matter of what’s getting enough publicity to keep it on the public and Congressional agenda.

The left has weighed in. It’s not all up to Obama anyway. His attorney general Eric Holder, must be accountable for this decision. Anybody got a bug on him?

In addition to torture, we still have what should be the most pressing investigation of them all. The one about turning the Department of Justice into a political wing of the White House. Mr. Rove was supposed to testify sometime in late April.

Any day now? We can’t wait…

The Black Warrior Riverkeeper and the Friends of the Locust Fork River have submitted a nomination for 3,200 acres along the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River in Jefferson County and Blount Counties to be protected as public property by the Alabama Forever Wild Program.

The property, currently owned by the Birmingham Water Works Board, has been for sale since the beginning of April. This opportunity arose after the BWWB chose to discontinue longstanding plans for a dam on the river (to create a water supply reservoir). Now that this project is no longer going to occur, the threat to the Locust Fork’s free-flow is no longer, and the time is right to protect this property, according to the group’s press release.

A conservation purchase by Forever Wild could help this gateway to the Locust Fork become a resource for current and future generations.

The Locust Fork is one of Alabama’s longest remaining free-flowing rivers. It is a great place to swim, canoe and kayak, fish, photograph, watch wildlife, and more. The river is also home to a number of rare aquatic species such as fish, mussels, snails, turtles, and salamanders.

Protection of this property would provide watershed protection that is vital for both water quality and wildlife habitat. A Forever Wild acquisition will provide much needed public access for the many recreational users that visit the Locust Fork each year.

To read the nomination and view its attachments, click here.

For information, click here.