200 Orgs Ask for Special Prosecutor for Cheney and Bush

[davidswanson]

200 Organizations Ask Holder to Appoint a Special Prosecutor for Bush, Cheney, et alia

Two hundred organizations, including After Downing Street, Democrats.com, the Robert Jackson Steering Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Lawyers Guild, the Society of American Law Teachers, Human Rights USA, the American Freedom Campaign, and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, have signed a joint statement urging Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor for former top officials of the Bush Administration.

The complete list of organizations can be found at http://specialprosecutor.us

The complete statement reads as follows:

We urge Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a non-partisan independent Special Counsel to immediately commence a prosecutorial investigation into the most serious alleged crimes of former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Richard B. Cheney, the attorneys formerly employed by the Department of Justice whose memos sought to justify torture, and other former top officials of the Bush Administration.

Our laws, and treaties that under Article VI of our Constitution are the supreme law of the land, require the prosecution of crimes that strong evidence suggests these individuals have committed. Both the former president and the former vice president have confessed to authorizing a torture procedure that is illegal under our law and treaty obligations. The former president has confessed to violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

We see no need for these prosecutions to be extraordinarily lengthy or costly, and no need to wait for the recommendations of a panel or “truth” commission when substantial evidence of the crimes is already in the public domain. We believe the most effective investigation can be conducted by a prosecutor, and we believe such an investigation should begin immediately.

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

We even have confessions already

[calimary]

2. Rather bald-faced ones at that. Prideful, even.

Go figure. And they're on the record.

I'd sign any petition for this - anytime - anywhere. I actually have, whenever I found one.

[Solly Mack]

5. Boasting about it

:(

[bdamomma]

4. Cheney that arrogant POS needs to be arrested.

[Solly Mack]

6. Yes and not just him

Bush admitted it as well.

[bdamomma]

3. kick and rec

[Echo In Light]

7. K&R ...and fuck the "policy debate."

[Wednesdays]

8. K&R

:kick:

[optimal-tomato]

9. I was unsure about this six months ago...

I thought maybe Obama's "just move forward" approach might be the best, if not ideal, solution, but today I realized prosecutions and convictions are the only solution.

Not because what the Bush White House did was abhorent, though it was. Not because we'd be hypocrites to let them go, though we would. Prosecutions are necessary because if Republicans somehow take back the House in 2010 and Obama and Biden were to die in a freak accident or illness, then President Boener would resume torturing within a week of taking office.

Prosecutions are necessary because one of the two major parties in this country have made it their policy to break the law. And they continue to rave about it with the wide-eyed fervor of a zealot.

It is not enough that "America no longer tortures". We have to make sure that we will also never torture again.

[Octafish]

10. Traitors and warmongers lied America into war and attacked innocent countries.

In the process, they destroyed the Constitution.

What's not to investigate?

Thanks to you and your brave colleagues, Mr. Swanson!

[bdamomma]

11. kick and rec