To Eric Holder, the next Attorney General of the United States:
Dear Attorney General Holder, we the undersigned citizens hereby petition you to appoint a Special Prosecutor to aggressively investigate and prosecute the many and various crimes that we believe have been committed both by, and under, the Bush Administration.
For eight long years the citizens of the United States have witnessed the President, the Vice President, and Bush administration officials commit crime after crime. In an atmosphere of deliberate politicized corruption that has shocked the conscience of our nation, all attempts at investigation and accountability have been blocked or deflected. Ultimately, by the corruption and politicization of the Department of Justice itself. The very Department that you are soon to head.
The corruption of the most basic tool of justice and accountability, the subpoena process, has been particularly alarming. By refusing to enforce the Congressional power of subpoena, and thus their power to hold the Executive Branch of our government accountable, former Attorneys General Gonzalez and Mukasey have subverted the very concept of justice, and the Rule of Law upon which our nation was founded.
We as citizens are subject to the Rule of Law, and we demand that our government and its officials be as well. We as citizens have lost faith in the credibility our justice system, due to the abuse, corruption, and subversion by the political appointees of the Bush Administration. Only you Attorney General Holder, can restore that faith. And it it is our belief that it may only be restored by the aggressive and unrelenting prosecution of those who have corrupted it, and by bringing to the light of day the crimes that have been covered up or rendered “legal” by that corruption.
The most important founding principle of America is that no man is above the law. Our Constitution itself is meant to guarantee that principle. Perhaps the most egregious crime of all has been to subvert the Department of Justice to place the President and the members of his administration above the law itself. That principle must be restored and we insist Attorney General Holder, that it is your responsibility to do so. As citizens of a democracy meant to be by, for, and of The People, and thus your “employers,” we in fact demand that you do so. The eyes, and the hopes, of our nation are upon you Attorney General Holder, at this critical time for our entire system of justice.
The list of offenses is long, ranging from minor violations of the Hatch Act, to torture, and to what a former president and head of the CIA classified as treason, the exposure of an entire CIA counter-terrorism network in the Plame case:
GEORGE H.W. BUSH: “I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.”
The case in which which Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald, who we strongly urge you to consider for this position, was thwarted in his pursuit of justice by, as he put it, the Bush Administration “Throwing sand in the face of the umpire.”
(insert rest of list, which we shall build, here)
These investigations and prosecutions that we so strongly urge you to undertake and pursue will have many consequences. Some of them could prove to be politically inexpedient for our new President, and especially for the Democratic Congress who due partly to the obstruction of justice so prevalent in these last eight years has failed to fully pursue and enforce their own investigations and prosecutions. To this end, we remind you that you work not on behalf of or for the President or the Congress, but for the People of the United States of America. We urge you to, unlike your predecessors Attorneys General Mukasey and Gonzales, ignore these political considerations and consequences in the pursuit of justice, no matter what, or to whom, the cost.
To that end, we petition you to appoint and fully empower an Independent or Special Prosecutor and to fully fund and support their investigation and prosecution of all the parties implicated therein.
Our justice system has been corrupted and compromised. Our standing as an nation that hews to the Rule of Law above all else has been gravely and perilously threatened. Only one man, standing independent from all other considerations, can restore both our standing, the Rule of Law in our great nation, and the integrity of the Department of Justice itself, Attorney General Holder. And that man is you.
OK, be brutal! What do we cut and what do we change?
Next step is The List….any and all help appreciated! Lying us into war, wiretapping, and of course, torture. Please submit links to any definitive quotes, statements, articles and news reports from impeccable sources re Bushco crimes and coverups. Search your memories and bookmarks! Let’s work on this over the weekend and try to whip this puppy into shape so the good folks over at Democrats.com can make it into a petition and we can start circulating it next week, while the iron is hot.
We could also use a list of prominent figures to contact, and their contact info.
Have at it you Maniacs!
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that Bush, caught violating FISA in a felonious manner, went on nationwide television, admitted it and said he would continue to do it. This alone should have led to his immediate impeachment some years ago.
If you need a cite, let me know.
I do doubt this will work. I believe Bush will be punished only after the economy goes totally belly up, because that is only when the pain will not be ignorable. That is when the utter disregard for rules or regulating greed and fraud that is the hallmark of his admin will come into full focus.
Due to the Bush administrations thumbing of their collective nose at the international community, the standing of the United States of America in the jurisdiction of world opinion has suffered egregiously. Exposing the truth about America’s actions in the world over the past years, and holding those responsible for it accountable, is the prerequisite to setting relations with the world on a new, more constructive basis.
The US has faceed a constitutional crisis due to the Bush administration that goes far beyond either partisan politics or isolated acts of wrongdoing. The Bush administration has tried to replace the constitutional rule of law with the power of the Executive branch to disregard both the laws established by the Legislative branch and the judgments of the Judicial branch. It has cloaked this power grab with a mantle of secrecy. Only by clearly reiterating and strengthening the power of Congress to know what the Executive branch does can we even consider the possibility of constitutional checks and balances be restored.
on Bush Administration crimes and impeachable offenses can be
found here .
Look down the left column especially, but there are lots of goodies in the central column also.
and this is the only way I could think of to do that.
very well worded information in this dK diary from Rocky Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City, UT. that could be inspirational concerning this undertaking.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/…
My feeling is that we take information anywhere we can find it in order to fine tune the document we send to Attorney General Holder.
…paragraph 8, 4th & 5th words are repeats.
Check out this link — it concerns appointing a Special Prosecutor (by Bob Fertik).
Special Prosecutor for the Crimes of the Bush Administration
I think the emphasis should be on the MOST impeachable, and mostly documented and proven. I think that is: leading us into a war based on lies — torture, rendition, etc., without habeas corpus — all of these aggregious actions are in contravention of the Nuremburg Rule, the Geneva Conventions, the United Nations and the Human Rights’ Laws. In other words, war crimes. Of course, there are so many other terrible crimes, but I think these are at the top of the list in terms of impeachment — and more easily provable than, perhaps, others. In fact, Bush has even admitted to many of these crimes.
To be more succinct — think about it — had we not gone into an illegal war based on lies, many of the other internationally illegal crimes would not have occurred, or so we would hope. So, my reasoning is based on an illegal invasion and a lied to public, etc.
i am with you in spirit, just can’t do any heavy lifting until next week when the semester is over. then i promise undivided attention. until then it is a peek in to see what’s new at 1 am while i boil water for tea to keep myself awake for another few hours.