Obama's Agenda Stands to Lose as Furor Over Bush Years Intensifies

President Obama's allies are calling for investigations into the Bush administration's prosecution of the War on Terror -- but such developments could prove a distraction to the president's domestic agenda.

Early in the year, the president said he wanted to "look forward" and suggested he was not interested in opening high-profile investigations into the activities of the Bush administration.

But a series of developments halfway through Obama's first year related to the Bush administration's prosecution of the War on Terror are threatening to undermine the president's agenda and overshadow his message going forward, analysts say.