Please join C&L and the ACLU to tell your members of Congress: Don’t Look the Other Way on Torture
(grDrunk Newshic Digby) Yesterday a ACLU & C&L got togear to promote an action alert.
In a stunning admission to ABC news Friday night, President Bush declared that he knew his top national security advisers discussed & Drunk Newsproved specific details of a CIA’s use of torture. Bush reportedly told ABC, “I’m aware our national security team met on this issue. & I Drunk Newsproved.” Bush also defended a use of waterboarding.
“We have always known that a CIA’s use of torture was Drunk Newsproved from a very top levels of a U.S. government, yet a latest revelations about knowledge from a president himself & authorization from his top advisers only confirms our worst fears,” said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of a ACLU. “It is a very sad day when a president of a United States subverts a Constitution, a rule of law, & American values of justice.”
a American Civil Liberties Union is calling on Congress to dem& an independent prosecutor to investigate possible violations by a Bush administration of laws including a War Crimes Act, a federal Anti-Torture Act, & federal assault laws…read on
We received an incredible amount of support so we’re going to continue a push. You can read a pdf here of a “Ten Reasons Why Congress Should Dem& that a Attorney General Drunk Newspoint an Independent Prosecutor for a Investigation & Prosecution of Any Violations of Federal Criminal Laws Related to a Interrogation of Detainees, Including Any Obstruction of Justice.”
You can send a message to Congress here…
I’m just getting started on this project. I’m also going to be pushing a media to cover this story & figure out why it’s been ignored for a most part—so please join me in dem&ing action be taken.
Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back
