Accountability Update 1/11/09

Fertik: Stephanopoulos Asks Obama About Special Prosecutor
http://www.democrats.com/stephanopoulos-asks-obama-about-special-prosecutor

Leopold: Obama's DOJ Won't Pursue Bush Officials Over Torture
http://www.pubrecord.org/torture/607-despite-evidence-of-war-crimes-obamas-doj-wont-pursue-bush-officials.html

Melber: Holder Must Answer Torture Questions before Senate Confirmation
http://tinyurl.com/8gefha

dday: Jon Kyl Insists Holder Must Support Torture
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-attorney-general-rules-by-dday.html

AP: Wyden Wants Torture Secrets Declassified
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/38868

John Dean: Foreign Governments will Prosecute Torture if U.S. Does Not
http://www.democrats.com/olbermann-features-our-special-prosecutor-question

Turley: Foreign Governments will Prosecute Torture if U.S. Does Not
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/11/obama-special-prosecutor-torture/

Bowers: Should Progressives Support Investigation or Prosecution?
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=10834

Belle: We Can't Believe in Change Without Accountability
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/week-obama-thanks-cheney-good-advice-

Fertik: Does Obama Want Amnesty for Torturers?
http://www.democrats.com/obama-wants-amnesty-for-torturers

Parry: WaPo's Frontpage Lies About Efficacy of Torture
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/011009.html

Yglesias: U.S. Elites Have Embraced Torture
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/01/the_embrace.php

Cernig: Gitmo Guard Tells BBC About Psychotic Torture
http://crooksandliars.com/cernig/gitmo-whistleblower-talks-bbc-about-torture

Digby: In The Future America Does Not Torture
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/in-future-america-does-not-torture-by.html

Farber: Dealing with Torturers
http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/2009/01/dealing-with-torturers.html

Lithwick: A Special Prosecutor Would Not be a Witchhunt
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11lithwick.html

Klein: Conyers Commission Would Not be a Witchhunt
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2009/01/getting-to-bottom-of-bush-regime.html

Eviatar: Newly-Released OLC Memos Give Bush a Weak Legal Defense
http://washingtonindependent.com/24648/newly-released-olc-memos-support-critics-claims

Fertik: Bush Repeats His Bogus Torture Defense to Brit Hume
http://www.democrats.com/bush-repeats-his-bogus-torture-defense-to-brit-hume

Eviatar: Chuckie Taylor Gets 97 Years for Torture
http://washingtonindependent.com/24754/doj-still-prosecutes-torture-as-a-crime-when-other-people-do-it

Brewer: White House Cites Increase in Terror Attacks Since 9/11 As Success
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/White_House_Increase_in_terror_attacks_0110.html

Swanson: "Arrest Bush" Protest in front of FBI During Inaugural Parade
http://www.democrats.com/node/18761

Swanson: Bill Moyers Covers March of the Dead and Peace Activist Arrests
on Capitol Hill
http://www.democrats.com/node/18756

Horton: National Religious Coalition Against Torture Prays for Obama
Executive Order on Day 1
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/01/hbc-90004169