Accountability Update 1/14/09

Branham: Gold Star Mother Wants Accountability through Prosecution
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/38934

Leopold: Conyers Issues 500-Page Report for Investigations and Prosecutions
http://www.pubrecord.org/politics/619-conyers-calls-for-criminal-probe-into-bush-administration-abuses.html

Leopold: Conyers Compiles Evidence for Prosecution of Bush & Cheney
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/011409b.html

Swanson: Conyers Makes 47 Recommendations
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/conyers09

Hamsher: Will the Bush/Cheney Crimes Get Flushed Down the Memory Hole?
http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/13/will-the-bushcheney-crimes-get-flushed-down-the-memory-hole/

buhdydharma: Senators Should Ask Holder to Appoint Special Prosecutor
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/14/165417/262/380/684079

Wheeler: 2001 Yoo Memo Eliminated 4th Amendment
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/01/13/the-olc-opinion-eliminating-the-4th-amendment/

Leopold: More on the 2001 Yoo Memo
http://www.pubrecord.org/law/620-yoos-legal-memo-advised-white-house-to-ignore-fourth-amendment.html
http://www.pubrecord.org/torture/616-flashback-yoo-based-torture-memo-on-health-benefts-law.html

Ackerman: Impeach Jay Bybee
http://www.slate.com/id/2208517/

Greenwald: Obama Responds to Progressive Pressure to Close Gitmo
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/13/obama/index.html

Smith: ACLU and CCR Work to Restore the Constitution
http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/13/restoring-the-rule-of-law-aclu-and-ccr-weigh-in-on-legislative-agendas/

Wheeler: Holder Confirm Delays Will Let FISA Statute of Limitations Expire
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/01/13/orrin-hatch-to-support-holder-yet-the-delay-and-kabuki-continues/

Edger: Gerald Ford's Post-Pardon Defeat is Object Lesson for Obama
http://www.docudharma.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=11417

Horton: When Judge Susan Crawford Calls it Torture, It Matters
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/01/hbc-90004186

Wheeler: Torture of Qahtani and Zubaydah Prove Torture Doesn't Work
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/01/14/what-about-abu-zubaydah/

Ackerman: Bushies Lied to me About Qahtani
http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/01/14/thetortureofalqatani/

dday: Qahtani's Torture Isn't News
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/breaking-bob-woodward-has-library-card.html

Hendricks: Obama Owes Torture Victims Prosecution and Treatment
http://www.alternet.org/rights/119395/we_cannot_allow_obama_to_be_the_torturer-elect

DeGroot: NBC Pays Smerconish and Scarborough to Defend Torture on NBC
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=10873

Meteor Blades: Joe Scarborough Hearts Torture
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/1/13/101945/599/954/683497

Hamsher: Doris Goodwin Hates Investigations
http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/13/doris-kearns-goodwin-on-torture-leave-establishment-washington-aloooone/

Breitweiser: Torture Saved Lives? Prove It
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristen-breitweiser/dialing-back-dick-its-tim_b_157406.html

Kleiman: Why Did Bushco Destroy America? Maybe They'd Explain Under Torture
http://www.samefacts.com/archives/torture_/2009/01/a_modest_proposal_for_dealing_with_the_torture_problem.php

Horton: Charles I Was Decapitated for Torture
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/01/hbc-90004174

McJoan: Sen Leahy Outraged by DoJ Refusal to Prosecute Brad Schlozman
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/1/13/18817/1567/757/683686

Horton: Schlozman Illegally Packed Civil Rights Division with the Federalist Society "Team"
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/01/hbc-90004180

Sen. Whitehouse Wants Secret OLC Memos
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99276434

Cernig: Closing Gitmo
http://crooksandliars.com/cernig/closing-gitmo

Worthington: Former Gitmo Prosecutor Calls Interrogators' Practices 'Despicable'
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Former_Gitmo_prosecutor_opens_fire_on_0113.html

Fisher: Obama Must Also Resolve The "Other Gitmo" at Bagram
http://www.pubrecord.org/commentary/613-the-other-gitmo.html