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Ari Melber: Ask Obama For a Torture Special Prosecutor
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... , throwing open the site this week for citizen input. The first run of this experiment was a mixed bag. The platform was open and transparent, but the official answers felt more like old boilerplate than new responses. When the submitted questions parrot toics in the traditional media, of course, the exchange can feel like a dated press conference. But here's a vital question that few reporters have ever presented to Obama: ...
Daily Digest: Remodeling Change.gov, from Inside and Out
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... The Nation's Ari Melber sees in Open for Questions a chance to advance question that the press corps seems loathe to ask: will President Obama appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush Administration on torture, warrantless wiretapping, and more? Democrats.com's Bob Fertik pushed the question in Round 1, but it came in sixth, with only the top five getting answered. As activist Jon Pincus notes, rallying your comrades around your query is made all the more difficult by the fact that ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... Sixties" in the United States, with its ethos of reform and protest, ended with Richard Nixon's landslide reelection in 1972 and the winding down of the Vietnam War. In the same way, the outcome of this year's election means that 2009 will, finally, mark the beginning of the 21st century. Robert Shrum: Bush? Legacy? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Donna Brazile: Can politicians please refrain from scandal in 2009? We've had enough. Ari Melber: Use change.gov to ask for a special prosecutor on torture. Daoud ...
Ask Obama for a Torture Special Prosecutor
Daily Kos —
... Ari Melber, writing at the Nation spreads the word on how to keep the issue of torture prosecutions front and center with the incoming administration: ...
Ari Melber: Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for Obama on Change.Gov
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A whopping 70,000 questions poured into Change.gov over the past week, in response to the Obama transition team's call for citizen queries to the President-Elect. After votes from about 100,000 people, the top ranked question asks Obama whether he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture and illegal surveillance by the U.S. government.
I've been working with activist Bob Fertik to organize support for the question, and several progressive bloggers urged readers and Obama supporters to vote ...
Ari Melber: Obama on Torture: Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
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... the list of citizen concerns on Change.gov last week, out of over 70,000 submissions, but Obama aide Robert Gibbs refused to respond, leading ABC's ...
Ari Melber: The Problem with Holder's Partial Torture Prosecutor
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... MoveOn.org, which had joined efforts by netroots activists and progressive bloggers calling on Obama to appoint a special prosecutor with a wide latitude to investigate torture, said on Monday that while it "applaud[ed]" Holder's move, it was not enough. "The Department of Justice must not only investigate the CIA, but also those who ordered, approved and sanctioned the torture," said Justin Ruben, the group's Executive Director. "We need to make sure those all the way up the chain of command are held responsible for their actions." ...
