Ask Holder to Appoint a Special Prosecutor
Attorney General Eric Holder is considering whether to prosecute torture. He shouldn't consider it. He should appoint a special prosecutor and let him or her consider whether torturing people violates our laws against torture. You can ask Holder to do this at: 202-514-2001 or AskDOJ@usdoj.gov
More from Brad. And here Greenwald reacts to indications in WaPo that special prosecutor would treat lawyers' illegal torture memos as law and prosecute only those who exceeded (or preceded?) what was illegally authorized by those memos. This sounds worse than it is, because when you stop and look at it: we don't know of a single instance of torture that did not exceed what the memos "allowed", but this would immunize the lawyers and the top officials who told the lawyers what to pretend to legalize and then ordered that those crimes be committed. This is one rule of law for the powerful (none at all) and another for others. This is "bad apples" on steroids even if they find a whole rotten orchard.
On the other hand, Scott Horton thinks the targets for prosecution would be the lawyers. Who knows. We need to demand consideration for prosecution EVERYONE who broke laws.
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I wonder if Holder has the funding to take on...
what would be such a massive task? Certainly the money was made available for the prosecution and persecution of Clinton. But that money has been spent.
There must have been a few honest individuals in the Bush government, but at this point, haven't seen anyone singled out for being honest and aboveboard.
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
While....
He is at it he should look into prosecuting the illegal spying that went far beyond it's mandate...
Here is an article with lots of details(Holder)...
Newsweek
July 20, 2009
Daniel Klaidman
http://www.newsweek.com/id/206300
Scroll down to pick up the first of 4 pages of text.
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Sadly
he may not have in mind anything at all, but it sounds like he likely has in mind something not nearly as massive as the law requires
However, I'm confident that anything he's willing to take on that requires special funding (I don't know that anything would) Congress will fund. There'd be usual fight in Senate, but it'd get through. Democrats would love this. A few Republicans would back it. And all Congress members would be glad to see the executive branch at least pretend to police itself -- takes off some pressure for Congress to oversee our government as it was intended to do.