Re: Organizations unite for prosecution of top Bush officials

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It's Time for Holder to Go After the Big Fish Organizations Unite,
Demand: Top Bush Officials Must Be Prosecuted

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A large coalition of human rights organizations and prominent lawyers
sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder last week urging him
to hold firm against pressure from Dick Cheney and others to narrow
the scope of a Special Prosecutor investigating Bush-era crimes.

With each passing day the crimes committed by Bush, Cheney and
Rumsfeld are being revealed. IndictBushNow and thousands of people
throughout the country are taking to the streets, lobbying Congress,
mass petitioning, issuing sign-on letters and taking out newspaper
ads to demand that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld �and not just low level
operatives �be held accountable for their criminal acts.

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IndictBushNow supporters and volunteers are active mobilizing support
for a serious prosecution of Bush and Cheney. The coalition that
sent a letter to Holder includes the American Association of Jurists,
Center for Constitutional Rights, National Lawyers Guild, U.S. Human
Rights Network and more than sixty others.

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Open Letter to Attorney General Holder

We, the undersigned, are writing to request that you hold firm
against any attempts by former Vice President Dick Cheney, the CIA
directors, and the media to silence those who demand that the United
States hold accountable those who have committed and authorized
torture.

We call on you to appoint a special independent prosecutor who is
not part of the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute
all those who ordered, approved, justified, abetted or carried out
the torture and abuse. The people who are held accountable should
not be limited to low-level operatives.

We are particularly disturbed by the efforts of the reporters at
the Washington Post to distort the facts and ignore the illegality
of torture.

They cited anonymous sources who allegedly said that torture works;
these reports contradict the newly released report of the CIAs
Inspector General.

Cheneys claim that your decision to open an investigation into the
conduct of the CIA is a politicization of this issue is shameful.
If anything, political pressure has led to your office taking too
narrow an approach to the investigation.

The world community has expressed its revulsion at the use of torture
in any form. Torture is illegal under all circumstances. The
prohibition against torture is considered in international law on
par with laws against genocide, slavery and wars of aggression.
Under the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court, it is
a crime against humanity.

The United States is a party to the Convention against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) and
the Geneva Conventions. Both treaties expressly require the United
States to either extradite or initiate prosecution of persons who
are reasonably accused �this is a legal obligation. The U.S. Torture
Statute that Congress passed to fulfill our obligations under the
CAT outlaws torture committed outside the United States. The U.S.
War Crimes Act punishes torture as a grave breach of the Geneva
Conventions. In 2006, the Supreme Court affirmed in Hamdan v.

Rumsfeld that all prisoners in U.S. custody are protected by the
Geneva Conventions.

There are many who claim we should ignore the facts and the law and
refuse to hold accountable all those responsible for the use of
torture. Whether actionable intelligence was gained is not the
issue. Nor is the morale in the CIA.

We believe the oath of office you took requires that you not pick
and choose those laws you will enforce.

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