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Citizens' Petition Seeking A Special Prosecutor
TalkLeft — Docudharma and Democrats.com are sponsoring the following petition: 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. These crimes are being euphemistically referred to as "abusive interrogation techniques" by such respected figures as Senator John McCain. These are euphemisms for torture. Torture is a War Crime. Waterboarding ...

Appreciating the Foes of Torture
Daily Kos — ... If you’d like to thank them as well, one concrete way you can do so is by reinforcing their message: Join with bloggers at Docudharma and ...

Shahid Buttar: Could Gitmo Get Worse? The Policy Implications of Executive Accountability
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... as the starting point for 2009, and press our representatives to repudiate the Bush-Cheney legacy by enforcing laws violated by departing White House officials and supporting their criminal prosecution. ...

Will We Get Accountability? Obama's Reply to Blogger Bob Fertik's Special Prosecutor Question
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... politics. So, ultimately, he's going to be making some calls."Fertik said the popularity of the question he posted did not surprise him. In a phone interview with BuzzFlash, he said that while "there has not been a lot of passion for accountability on some of the bigger blogs," it is "ordinary citizens who have been waiting for" this issue to come to the fore. Fertik has seen the interest in prosecuting Bush Administration officials for various crimes grow recently. His site hosts a petition addressed to Holder calling for investigation and prosecution of Bush Administration ...

OVER AT DEMOCRATS.COM, they’re calling for a special prosecutor for Bush war crimes. If I were a …
Instapundit — OVER AT DEMOCRATS.COM, they’re calling for a special prosecutor for Bush war crimes. If I were a Republican leader, I’d write Holder and ask for a special prosecutor to investigate tax fraud by Obama appointees . . . . ...

Prosecute or Perish
The BRAD BLOG — Guest Blogged by Ernest A. Canning "It will remain one of democracy's best jokes that it provided its deadly enemies with the means by which it was destroyed." - Joseph Goebbels * * * Gradually, as the veil of secrecy lifts, a growing number of Americans are beginning to comprehend the lawlessness of the cabal which seized control of the White House in 2000 in what amounted to a judicially-aided coup d'etat.[i] This lawlessness extended across the board. It included the packing of federal agencies with lobbyists from industries they were designed to ...

Fixing the Facts and Legal Opinions Around the Torture Policy
The BRAD BLOG — ... the best way to insure that is by way appointing a truly independent career prosecutor to act as a special prosecutor. The activists' petition which asks the AG to appoint that special prosecutor would certainly serve to steady Eric Holder's moral compass. But, as Elizabeth de la Vega, a former federal prosecutor with 20 years of experience, has ...