GROUPS REQUEST SPECIAL PROSECUTOR FOR BUSH, CHENEY
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GROUPS REQUEST SPECIAL PROSECUTOR FOR
BUSH, CHENEY
Media Freedom
Foundation/Project Censored join 40 Groups Calling for Special
Prosecutor
For Immediate Release
February 24, 2009
Contact: David Swanson da...@davidswanson.org
Statement on Prosecution of Former
High Officials
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.
Drafted by The Robert Jackson Steering
Committee
Signed By:
Center for Constitutional Rights
The National Lawyers Guild
American Freedom Campaign Action Fund
High Road for Human Rights Advocacy
Project
After Downing Street
Democrats.com
Gold Star Families for Peace
Ann Wright, retired US Army Reserve
Colonel and US diplomat
Delaware Valley Veterans for America
Voters for Peace
Wisconsin Impeachment / Bring Our
Troops Home Coalition
Backbone Campaign
CODE PINK: Women for Peace
Velvet Revolution
Justice Through Music
Progressive Democrats of America
Brad Blog
Cities for Peace
National Accountability Network
Northeast Impeachment Coalition
Republicans for Impeachment
Op Ed News
Marcus Raskin, cofounder of Institute
for Policy Studies, member of editorial board of The Nation, member of
the special staff of the National Security Council in Kennedy
Administration
The Progressive
Peace Team
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for
Sanity (VIPS)
Defending Dissent Foundation
Grassroots America
Media Freedom Foundation/Project
Censored
Peace Action
Grandmothers Against the War
World Can't Wait
United for Peace and Justice
Global Network Against Weapons &
Nuclear Power in Space
War Crimes Times
Veterans for Peace 099
Veterans for Peace 26
Veterans for Peace
Naomi Wolf, author of "End of America:
Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot," and "Give Me Liberty: A Handbook
for American Revolutionaries"
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Daniel Ellsberg, Truth-Telling Project
Organizations and individuals can add
their names to this statement at http://prosecutebushcheney.org
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26.02.2009, 11:43:5826.02.09
an World-News
Follow Up With Your Local D.A. Now That They Have The Bugliosi Book On
Prosecuting Dick & W
We want you to know that we are gearing up for actions on many
critical and substantive issues, health care, mass media issues, real
food safety and more, and we will have much more on all these soon.
However, this week there is a special priority. We told you that
another activist group was sending copies of the Vince Bugliosi Book,
"The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" to each and every local
county district attorney in the country, nearly 3,000 books in the
mail which were due to arrive at their destinations on or about Feb.
21, so they should be there by now.
To follow up we are asking all our participants to make it their
mission to confirm with your local prosecutor that they got their copy
of the book, and make sure to tell them that Vince Bugliosi himself
wrote them a cover letter with the book, offering his help in any way,
and highlighting the essentials of the case. There is a link to the
actual text of this cover letter on the page below, where you can also
instantly look up the contact info for your own local D.A.
Local D.A. Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net
Remember, unless we demand and achieve true accountability, there is
absolutely no meaningful constraint on the potential war criminals of
the future. So please read the Bugliosi cover letter yourself, and the
words will come to you so you will know exactly what to say when you
ask your own prosecutor to accept Vince's help in bring the criminals
from the last White House to real justice. And if you have not
requested one of the new "Convict Dick & W" caps already, you can get
yours from the same page above.
At the same time, we are also keeping the pressure on the appointment
of real special prosecutor at the federal level. We will not settle
for a so-called "truth" commission that's just an immunity fest for
the worst of international criminals. The following is the text of a
joint letter drafted and released by our activist friends at After
Downing Street, which many major progressive groups have already
signed on to.
*Statement on Prosecution of Former High Officials *
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.
Drafted by The Robert Jackson Steering Committee
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/robertjackson
Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.
usalone300b:239083
Prosecuting Dick & W
We want you to know that we are gearing up for actions on many
critical and substantive issues, health care, mass media issues, real
food safety and more, and we will have much more on all these soon.
However, this week there is a special priority. We told you that
another activist group was sending copies of the Vince Bugliosi Book,
"The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" to each and every local
county district attorney in the country, nearly 3,000 books in the
mail which were due to arrive at their destinations on or about Feb.
21, so they should be there by now.
To follow up we are asking all our participants to make it their
mission to confirm with your local prosecutor that they got their copy
of the book, and make sure to tell them that Vince Bugliosi himself
wrote them a cover letter with the book, offering his help in any way,
and highlighting the essentials of the case. There is a link to the
actual text of this cover letter on the page below, where you can also
instantly look up the contact info for your own local D.A.
Local D.A. Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net
Remember, unless we demand and achieve true accountability, there is
absolutely no meaningful constraint on the potential war criminals of
the future. So please read the Bugliosi cover letter yourself, and the
words will come to you so you will know exactly what to say when you
ask your own prosecutor to accept Vince's help in bring the criminals
from the last White House to real justice. And if you have not
requested one of the new "Convict Dick & W" caps already, you can get
yours from the same page above.
At the same time, we are also keeping the pressure on the appointment
of real special prosecutor at the federal level. We will not settle
for a so-called "truth" commission that's just an immunity fest for
the worst of international criminals. The following is the text of a
joint letter drafted and released by our activist friends at After
Downing Street, which many major progressive groups have already
signed on to.
*Statement on Prosecution of Former High Officials *
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.
Drafted by The Robert Jackson Steering Committee
Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.
usalone300b:239083
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