I am endorsing a proposal on http://change.org/ that President Obama appoint a special prosecutor to bring members of the Bush Administration to trial, many of whom have admitted on television recently of their crimes. Here is the full text of the proposal:
I agree with President-elect Obama that we need to look forward instead of towards the past. That is exactly why this proposal is great. We are able to protect the constitution and the reputation of the highest office in the land without tying the President's hands. This special prosecutor will be solely dedicated to investigating these crimes while President Obama can be focused on putting this country on a new track towards a better future.
http://change.org/ is not affiliated with Obama's website http://change.gov/. It is a social networking site dedicated to bringing people together around certain causes. Currently they have open voting to pick the top ten ideas or causes, which will be presented to President Barack Obama and used as the groundwork for a national advocacy movement to turn them into national policy. You can vote directly through the widget on the sidebar to the right. Thanks!
President-elect Obama recently said, "if I found out that there were high
officials who knowingly, consciously broke existing laws, engaged in coverups of
those crimes with knowledge forefront, then I think a basic principle of our
Constitution is nobody above the law."
Attorney General-designate Eric Holder recently said top Bush
Administration officials "authorized the use of torture, approved of secret
electronic surveillance of American citizens, secretly detained American
citizens without due process of law, denied the Writ of Habeus Corpus to
hundreds of accused enemy combatants, and authorized the use of procedures that
both violate international law and the United States Constitution."
The Bush administration has refused to investigate its own crimes and
President Bush may issue blanket pardons before he leaves. President Obama must
appoint a Special Prosecutor - ideally Patrick Fitzgerald - to fully investigate
these crimes and prosecute those responsible to demonstrate that we are truly a
Nation of Laws and no one - including the President - is above the law.
I agree with President-elect Obama that we need to look forward instead of towards the past. That is exactly why this proposal is great. We are able to protect the constitution and the reputation of the highest office in the land without tying the President's hands. This special prosecutor will be solely dedicated to investigating these crimes while President Obama can be focused on putting this country on a new track towards a better future.
http://change.org/ is not affiliated with Obama's website http://change.gov/. It is a social networking site dedicated to bringing people together around certain causes. Currently they have open voting to pick the top ten ideas or causes, which will be presented to President Barack Obama and used as the groundwork for a national advocacy movement to turn them into national policy. You can vote directly through the widget on the sidebar to the right. Thanks!
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