Welcome to:

New Jersey Accountability & Justice Coalition 

Mission of New Jersey Accountability & Justice Group:

Seeks to institute legal proceedings against the Bush Administration to manifest the crimes  committed during their tenure, against the U.S.Constitution, Federal and State criminal codes, including any violations to International laws and treaties to which the United States is a party

Our Goal is to affect Congressional action to appoint an adequately funded independent Special Prosecutor,to obtain by legal proceedings, the prosecutions of individuals belonging or associated with the Bush Administration. Furthermore we will endeavor other actions to secure accountability through civil courts,state and local governments,as well as international bodies.   

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Please Note: You May Wish to Consider also joining the national PDA Accountability & Justice Working Group by contacting conor@pdamerica.org and ask to be added to the group . The information for the national group can be found here:

• Current web address:  http://groups.google.com/group/pda-accountability

• Current email address:     pda-accountability@googlegroups.com

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    Goals :     

• Investigate, prosecute, and hold criminal trials to expose the crimes carried out by officials and contractors.
• Propose new State Secrets legislation that creates a mechanism for civil courts to hear classified matters.
• Issue new executive orders that reverse Bush’s expansion of the State Secrets privilege and over-classification of documents.
• Work with Congress to pass legislation making it clear military contractors are accountable for their abuses.
• Work to repeal the Patriot Act, FISA Amendments Act, and telecom immunity.
• Disavow Bush executive orders supporting warrantless wiretapping and the legal opinions used to support them.
• Pledge to end all secret surveillance programs not reviewed by either the courts or Congressional committees.
• Discard the use of signing statements to alter legislation.
• Appoint officials and judges who will uphold the Constitution in all respects.
• Recognize and respect international law and join the International Criminal Court.
• Work to amend the War Powers Act to explicitly prohibit Executive acts of war without previous Congressional authorization.
• Work to repeal the Patriot Act and other repressive legislation.
• Make the FBI strictly adhere to surveillance guidelines and repeal new surveillance guidelines that allow increased surveillance of activists.
• Open DOJ investigations into related government misconduct.
• End torture and issue an executive order prohibiting the use of torture.
• Close all secret detention sites and CIA “black sites.”
• End the use of extraordinary rendition and launch a DOJ investigation into its use.
• Officially reject all the legal memos, executive orders and signing statements that justify the use of torture.
• Renounce the “unitary” presidency.