July 12, 2009 by mike.

Patrick Fitzgerald would be fine with me as the prosecutor, but I doubt he can be appointed since he was so successful last time and tracked wrong-doing to Scooter Libby of Dick Cheney’s office.

Investigate, indict, prosecute and jail the war criminals and torturers. Strip them of government pensions, benefits. Let’s send a clear signal regarding the rule of law.

Come on, Mr. Holder, appoint the prosecutor now.

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is leaning toward appointing a criminal prosecutor to investigate whether CIA personnel tortured terrorism suspects after Sept. 11, 2001, setting the stage for a conflict with administration officials who would prefer the issues remain in the past, according to three sources familiar with his thinking. White House Has Resisted Inquiry Probe of Alleged Torture Weighed Among the unauthorized techniques allegedly used, as described in the report and Red Cross accounts, were shackling, punching and beating of suspects, as well as the waterboarding of at least two detainees using more liquid and for longer periods than the Justice Department had approved. That conduct could violate ordinary criminal laws, as well as the U.N. Convention Against Torture, which the United States signed more than a decade ago.

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July 12, 2009 by mike.

Total Information Awareness.  

Surveillance, data-mining of American citizens without warrant is a violation of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. To authorize unconstitutional government activity is exactly what is meant by high crimes.

People should lose their jobs, their pensions, their benefits if they are career CIA officers and they went along with a blatantly unconstitutional activity - data-mining and conducting surveillance against US citizens without warrant. By the way, this activity is also expressly prohibited by the terms of creation for the Central Intelligence Agency.

George Tenet? Investigate, indict, prosecute and jail him if he has violated the law.

JULY 13 UPDATE:  The Wall Street Journal reports that the hidden program was targeted assassination of Al Qaeda leaders.   I think if the facts ever become known we will discover that the Vice President operated more like a mafia godfather than an elected leader of a constitutional democracy.

I will wait for the other shoe to drop and indicate that wide-spread surveillance of US citizens has been conducted without warrant.

Who know what we will find out if a prosecutor is appointed?

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com Democrats May Investigate Secret Program House Democrats said yesterday that they expect to launch a formal investigation into a secret CIA program that was not disclosed to Congress for almost eight years, a probe that could entangle senior Bush administration officials who oversaw intelligence issues. “This wasn’t an oversight. There was an order given to not inform Congress,” said Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), chairman of the panel’s oversight and investigations subcommittee. The New York Times, on its Web site, reported yesterday that Panetta has told the committees that Vice President Richard B. Cheney gave the order to keep the information from Congress. The newspaper cited unnamed sources. Cheney’s current spokeswoman did not respond to an e-mail last night seeking comment.

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