Happy Monday. Welcome to my weekly letter writing campaign for torture accountability. This campaign is designed to keep the issue of accountability under the law for the Bush administrations torture program alive. Here is how it works, every Monday I write to one of the decision makers on the issue of torture accountability. You get involved (and increase the impact) by either cutting and pasting the letter over your own signature or just writing your own letter. I even provide the e-mail links so you can cc the letter to all the decision makers.

"Originally posted at Squarestate.net"

This week we are back to writing the Attorney General, as he has the final say as to whether comprehensive investigations will accrue or not.

Dear Attorney General Holder:

I write you once again to urge your action on the issue of the Bush Administration’s apparent torture program. The legal reasons why you should act are clear. Torture is both a Federal and International crime. Under the International Conventions Against Torture, any signatory has the obligation to investigate every credible allegation of torture.

Further there is an obligation to investigate not just those that carried out the act of torture, but those who ordered it. This is due to the specific exclusion of “action on orders” as a defense for commission of torture.

It is fairly clear that you and the Department of Justice have not acted on these requirements because of domestic political concerns. These concerns are probably quite real. The Republican Party and the conservative base would react vehemently to any serious investigation of the Bush Administrations ordering of torture.

This should not matter, as the rule of law is based on the idea of equal justice, regardless of political position or political calculation.

While upholding the rule of law should be enough to initiate action, it appears it is not. However, there are other considerations that you should be taking into account in making the choice to appoint a Special Prosecutor and allow him or her to fully investigate all aspects of our torture of prisoners.

It is well known, from the under oath testimony, that the Bush Administration ordered the torture of prisoners. That prisoners can not be tried because their treatment has risen to the level of torture, that we waterbaorded at least three prisoners, that we have very harshly treated hundreds more is common knowledge world wide.

Take the case of Aafia Siddiqui. She was recently convicted seven counts including attempted murder. Ms. Siddiqui is a Pakistani citizen who was on the FBI most wanted list for years before her capture. It seems that Ms. Siddiqui is guilty of the crimes she is convicted of, but the issue of United States holding of prisoners in so-called Black Sites and the torture of prisoners has clouded this issue in Pakistan.

Happy Monday and welcome to my on-going campaign for torture accountability. The purpose of this series is to keep the issue of accountability under the law for torture alive. To do this every Monday I write a letter to one of the decision to makers who could move the issue of torture accountability forward. You get involved by sending your own letter, you can use the one I write, just pasted over your signature, or you can write your own. The point is to have some notice given that not everyone has forgotten about the issue of torture war crimes in the glare of HCR and the new season of American Idol.

"Originally posted at Squarestate.net"

This week we are going to write to the Attorney General, as he is the single person that can really get the ball rolling with full-scale investigations. There will be copies to the President, the Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader of the Senate, Judiciary Chairs Leahy and Conyers and ranking Judiciary Committee Member Rep. Jerry Nadler.

This week’s letter:

Dear Attorney General Holder;

I write you this week to ask a simple question; doesn’t it make you angry that you are being made a patsy by war criminals?

I know that is rather blunt, but I have to assume it is what you feel in your heart. The man you were when you went to law school, the man who decided to spend his life in service of the law must be howling with rage at the box in which you now find yourself.

Make no mistake, you have been put in a box. It is crystal clear from the testimony, under oath, of former Bush Administration officials that there was a conspiracy to circumvent the laws on torture and find a justification to use waterboarding on prisoners of the United States. The conspiracy was completed when Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheik Mohamed were waterbaorded 83 times and 183 times respectively.

Happy Monday and welcome to my letter writing campaign for accountability under the law for the apparent torture program of the Bush administration. The point of this effort is to keep the issue of accountability alive. We all know there are other critical issues, and the President and many in the Congress would rather deal with those than an issue that is going to be as divisive as this one.

Happy Monday and welcome to the Dog’s letter writing campaign for torture accountability under the law. This is an effort to keep the issue of accountability for the apparent state sponsored torture program of the Bush administration alive. It works as follows; every Monday the Dog writes a letter to the leaders who can influence the decision to move from our half-hearted and weak-kneed investigation of a “few bad apples” to a full scale and independent investigation of all the people who conspired to circumvent our torture statutes and who carried out actual acts of torture. You get involved by either using this letter as the starting point for your own, or by cutting and pasting the letter over your signature. The Dog even provides the e-mail links, you just provide a little bit of time.

Happy Monday and welcome to my on-going letter writing campaign for torture accountability under the law. For those who have not seen this series before, the way it works is as follows; every Monday I write a letter to the decision makers urging them to follow through on accountability for the apparent Bush Administration torture program. You get involved by either using the letter as the starting place for one of your own, or cutting and pasting it over your signature and sending it off.

This week we go back to writing the Attorney General urging him to find a backbone and do what is required under our law and investigate the credible accusations of torture and conspiracy to commit torture. Please take a few minutes to add your voice to the call for accountability under the law.

Number 25 in my continuing letter writing campaign for torture accountability

Please take a couple of easy steps to keep the issue of torture accountability alive.

This is my letter writing campaign to urge the decision makers to take the actions our law requires in regards to the Bush Era torture program.

This is the 22nd in my ongoing letter writing campaign for torture accountability. Please take a moment to add your voice to the call for full accountability to the law.