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Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2009-01-19 05:04.Click to sign the petition to Attorney General designate Eric Holder:
Dear Attorney General-Designate Eric Holder,
We the undersigned citizens of the United States hereby formally petition you to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute any and all government officials who have participated in War Crimes. CLICK TO SIGN:
Collect signatures in the real world by printing out this PDF.
Please also phone the Office of the Attorney General at 202-353-1555.
Join our Facebook group.
There are a lot more steps you can take.
ConvictBushCheney.org
Submitted by Mike Hersh on Wed, 2006-01-04 18:35.
How to indict Bush, Cheney, et alia, at the state or local level for murder or attempted murder.
How to make a citizen's arrest of a war criminal.
How to contact the International Criminal Court.
How to pass local resolutions and ordinances.
Play our theme song by Pat Scanlon.
Watch video of September 2008 conference in Andover, Mass.
Coming soon: Mandamus: How you can ask a judge to order a prosecution, and how we can all do so on the same day in a national action. It's been tried in Minnesota with this writ, yielding this refusal.
Coming soon: How to use a state initiative to create an independent prosecutor.
Coming soon: How to prosecute international crimes in Florida and other states that allow common law criminal prosecutions.
"The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush," is available for the cost of $12; and a free downloadable PDF is available on the same site.
In Surprise Reversal, Pelosi Now Signals Support for Bush Probes
Submitted by Chip on Mon, 2009-01-19 15:35.In Surprise Reversal, Pelosi Now Signals Support for Bush Probes
By Jason Leopold | The Public RecordIn a stunning reversal, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has for the past two years has staunchly refused to back calls to impeach President George W. Bush, now says she will support congressional efforts to investigate the Bush administration over it's controversial practices, such as the politicization of the Department of Justice.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Prosecuting the Bush Administration
Submitted by Chip on Mon, 2009-01-19 15:26.Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Prosecuting the Bush Administration
2:14 mins.
Obama Supporters in DC Want Bush Arrested
Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2009-01-19 13:27.By David Swanson
Sunday evening I spoke on a panel in Washington, D.C., about war crimes, and in walked a group of spirited activists led by Laurie Arbeiter wearing "Arrest Bush" sweatshirts and carrying "Arrest Bush" signs, and they were absolutely dumfounded by what they had just experienced. They'd spent the day at the train station in D.C. and on the streets of D.C. as excited Obama celebrators poured in by the tens of thousands, and they'd been unable to walk a dozen steps without people stopping them to have their photo taken with an "Arrest Bush" sign.
It's worth remembering that Bush is approved by 22 percent of Americans and a smaller percentage of non-Americans. It's hard to get under 20 percent in any poll in this country. More people believe in UFOs than approve of Bush. The media meme that prosecuting Bush would cost Obama political capital has not been proven false, but it is absolutely baseless until someone produces something to base it on.
An Oldie But a Goodie
Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2009-01-19 12:44.Prosecution Complex
By NEAL KATYAL, New York Times, March 27, 2007IN 1999, when the Independent Counsel Act (the law that gave Kenneth Starr and Lawrence Walsh their mandates) was expiring, I was given the job of writing the new Justice Department rules for the appointment of a special prosecutor since the department would once again be responsible for overseeing such investigations.
There was one hypothetical to worry about once the Independent Counsel Act lapsed: a case in which the attorney general herself and her deputy were suspected of possible misconduct. The rules were therefore written to vest the decision about whether to appoint a special prosecutor in the top Justice Department official not embroiled in the controversy.
Today, the only way to get to the bottom of the United
> States attorney scandal — which involved the
> administration’s firing of nearly 10 percent ofImpeachment Investigation Ahead for Bush and Cheney?
Submitted by Chip on Sun, 2009-01-18 17:39.Impeachment investigation ahead for Bush and Cheney?
by Martha R Gore | Examiner.comIt came as no surprise that House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers began talking about impeachement hearing against President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on January 14, 2009. If such hearings come about, according to Conyers, it would be a means of reaffirming constitutional principals.
Many Bush critics think that Conyers put off an impeachment battle during the last two years because of concerns that it might have political repercussions that might have kept the Democrats from winning the larger congressional majorities and the presidency during the 2008 elections.
Mukasey Agrees: Prosecutions for Torture Now Hard to Avoid
Submitted by davidswanson on Sun, 2009-01-18 13:28.You read it here first, and then in the New York Times, and now Mukasey agrees to:
Attorney General Michael Mukasey raised concerns that government agents and national security lawyers may be at risk for criminal prosecution after his likely successor, Eric Holder, declared that waterboarding of terror detainees is torture....
...He added that in the future, government lawyers and agents "have to be concerned that you may someday -- having given your best, most honest, most impartial advice -- have it be said of you that you sanctioned a crime."
Wouldn't that be TERRIBLE? Imagine having to worry about whether or not your advice was legal! How unfair!
Obama Team's Sensitivity to Need to Avoid Enforcing the Law
Submitted by davidswanson on Sun, 2009-01-18 01:56.The one line removed from Congressman Dennis Kucinich's speech in Denver was a joke about giving Bush and gang 10 to 20. Here's a video including Kucinich using that line on another occasion:
Bugliosi's Book Being Mailed Now to All Prosecutors
Submitted by davidswanson on Sun, 2009-01-18 01:44.Got a message from Vince Bugliosi that his book is being mailed, thanks to Bob Alexander and lots of contributors, to all district prosecutors. Now is the time to get organized locally and contact your prosecutors about it: http://convictbushcheney.org
New York Times Now Agrees: Holder Will Have to Prosecute
Submitted by davidswanson on Sat, 2009-01-17 18:36.You read it here first, and now it's in the New York Times.
BUSH PARDONS PELOSI
Submitted by davidswanson on Sat, 2009-01-17 17:17.Declares her prosecution for war crimes “Off the table.”
January 19, 2009; 9:05 a.m.
The White House this morning announced the last-minute pardons of several more persons, ranging from low-level investment bankers to the Giants’ Plaxico Burress, but, in a surprise to many, the list also includes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Dem., CA) Although presidential pardons may be given for any reason, and without explanation, the Oval Office issued a rare statement in which President Bush lauded Pelosi’s “collusion” with the Republican administration’s illegal programs of torture and mass surveillance.
In a nod to the incoming administration, the outgoing President also thanked Pelosi for her “bipartisan posture” towards the war in Iraq, noting that she and the Democratic majority “approved more funds for the war than requested” by the Republican administration, despite an overwhelming mandate from her Democratic constituency to expedite a withdrawal.
Arrest Bush Radio
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2009-01-16 21:14.Coming up Saturday morning, January 17th at seven, on the "Connection" on A.M.950 K.T.N.F. in the Twin Cities and streaming live at
http://www.am950ktnf.comThree days and counting. George W. Bush is headed south and our elected President moves into the White House and begins the hard work of trying to return the country to its former position as a moral, legal and constitutional state that was the envy and role model of the world.
It won't be easy after the past eight years and, while Mr. Bush will be gone, not everyone wants him forgotten.
Including members of "Arrest Bush 2009."
They want him to answer in court for the last eight years.
Spokesman David Swanson will join us to lay out the case and review the Bush legacy.
The "Connection" airs Saturday mornings at 7, thanks to the good graces of KTNF radio, AM 950 in the Twin Cities, and the nocturnal habits of the host. It also streams live, on line, on the KTNF web site at:
Obama and Congress Must Act to Restore the Constitution
Submitted by dlindorff on Fri, 2009-01-16 17:36.- Activism
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- Elections
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- Impeachment
- Iraq
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By Dave Lindorff
The calls for a reckoning for the criminals of the Bush/Cheney administration are growing by the day, as the final few days of the Bush presidency tick down, and as new evidence of their crimes keep pouring out of the deflating gas bag that was the Bush White House.
For years, the Democrats in Congress, with a few notable exceptions, have sat on their hands, allowing the ongoing destruction of the Constitution, of the US military, of the nation’s reputation, and of the rule of law, as well as of the institution of Congress itself, by a cabal of Republicans in the White House, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, who have sought to establish an executive-led government that answered only to itself.
Want a Ticket to Inaugural Parade? We've Got Thousands for Free
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2009-01-16 15:52.Let Judgment Be Bush's History
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2009-01-16 13:33.By David Swanson
History cannot be the judge of Bush and Cheney. The corporate news really is the first draft of history, and there will be no magical leap from its dishonesty to an honest account. Most in the Washington establishment want to protect Bush and Cheney and gang, although the New York Times has now printed one column admitting the obvious point that if the outgoing criminals are not punished, their heirs will repeat their crimes.
Forgive and Forget?
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2009-01-16 12:39.By PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times
Last Sunday President-elect Barack Obama was asked whether he would seek an investigation of possible crimes by the Bush administration. “I don’t believe that anybody is above the law,” he responded, but “we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.”
I’m sorry, but if we don’t have an inquest into what happened during the Bush years — and nearly everyone has taken Mr. Obama’s remarks to mean that we won’t — this means that those who hold power are indeed above the law because they don’t face any consequences if they abuse their power.
Establishment Washington Unifies Against Prosecutions
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2009-01-16 01:16.by Glenn Greenwald, www.salon.com
The Washington Post's David Ignatius today does what he does best: serve
as the spokesman for the Washington establishment's most conventional
wisdom in a way that really illuminates what it is:To
underscore the message, Obama indicated that he would oppose
retrospective investigations of wrongdoing by the CIA and other
agencies, arguing: "When it comes to national security, what we have to
focus on is getting things right in the future, as opposed [to] looking
at what we got wrong in the past." This is the kind of realism that
will disappoint liberal score-settlers, but it makes clear that Obama has a grim appreciation of the dangers America still faces from al-Qaeda and its allies.Perino: "Talk to the hand" when it comes to pardons.
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2009-01-16 00:26.
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