Dear Attorney General Holder,
As I'm sure you know many Americans are concerned about abuses of power carried out in our name under any administration. As congress holds hearings and the new media discusses, most Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the abuses of the previous administration. Chief on our minds is the use of torture and the design of such a morally and constitutionally corrupt policy.
The American reputation is hanging in the balance, and it has fallen on your shoulders to either restore it and give it back its shining glory, or to kick it off of the precipice into the dung heap of history.
This is not primarily a partisan debate. This is a fundamental issue of the law and whether all Americans are subject to it or not. It’s surprising to me that President Obama ostensible to avoid the appearance of partisan ship says that he only wants to look forward. But since this is a question of law not politics. Obama’s reluctance seek justice in an effort to be bipartisan turns the issue of torture into a political bargaining chip.
Fortunately The Department of Justice stands as an independent body. You’re free to investigate and go where the evidence leads. In fact you have a duty to seek out wrong doing and to put a stop to it.
Americans of every party are starting to wonder what is taking so you long. It’s beginning to look like you’re afraid to do your job. Either that or your sympathies are with those who designed these heinous un-American policies
Familiar to act is at best a dereliction of duty, at worst it is criminal complicity.
If you continue to drag your heels on the relatively simple matter of appointing a prosecutor to begin an investigation into war crimes committed by the previous administration then I will have to assume that you are deliberately avoiding the task, either out of political cowardice or out of criminal complicity.
The American People have voted for change and to deny that change is intolerable. If you don’t act soon. I will lead a campaign to have you removed from office and to investigate if your refusal to act is rooted in criminal complicity with the crimes of the Bush Administration.
Time to get into gear.
Sincerely Yours
Daniel Wexler
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Torture Matters
Here's a quick rant that I sent off to my congressional representatives, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, and Nancy Pelosi:
Dear ...,
I am horrified at President Obama’s recent announcements suggesting that he will refuse to prosecute or even investigate incidences of torture by the CIA. I voted for change. But it’s beginning to look like more continuity of unchecked power than a return to the rule of law that Americans had hoped for and had a right to expect when President Obama took his oath of office
If we accept the spurious argument that agents who engaged in torture should escape prosecution because they were following orders, then the need to prosecute those who gave those orders become even more imperative.
The argument that we have to sweep some things under the rug because there is so much for our nation to deal with right now rings hollow. That is precisely why the president has a Cabinet including a Department of Justice. It only takes a few moments to direct him to launch a full scale investigation.
Attorney General Holder has an obligation to investigate and prosecute crimes. The president has an obligation to direct him to do so. The president’s refusal to make policy changes from the previous administration threatens our already weakened world reputation. When Obama says that we don’t torture, but refuses to outline reasonable definitions, refuses to investigate, refuses to prosecute, refuses to cancel extraordinary rendition then it’s as though he were swearing to make changes with his fingers crossed.
If Obama refuses to uphold the law and to prosecute those who wrote legal memo’s with intent to evade the law, those who set immoral and illegal policy, and those who gave the criminal orders for agents of The United States to commit torture thereby making our nation a lesser nation than it’s promise, then Barak Obama fails on his promise and becomes an accessory after the fact and part of the criminal conspiracy of the previous administration.
There are no two ways about this. If the president is afraid to do his job because of a political skirmish, then it incumbent upon congress to compel him to do so.
I urge you to conduct quick and thorough hearings into the medieval practices of the Bush administration. The American people’s reputation for justice is severely imperiled. We must take immediate and decisive steps.
Thank you
Daniel Wexler
Dear ...,
I am horrified at President Obama’s recent announcements suggesting that he will refuse to prosecute or even investigate incidences of torture by the CIA. I voted for change. But it’s beginning to look like more continuity of unchecked power than a return to the rule of law that Americans had hoped for and had a right to expect when President Obama took his oath of office
If we accept the spurious argument that agents who engaged in torture should escape prosecution because they were following orders, then the need to prosecute those who gave those orders become even more imperative.
The argument that we have to sweep some things under the rug because there is so much for our nation to deal with right now rings hollow. That is precisely why the president has a Cabinet including a Department of Justice. It only takes a few moments to direct him to launch a full scale investigation.
Attorney General Holder has an obligation to investigate and prosecute crimes. The president has an obligation to direct him to do so. The president’s refusal to make policy changes from the previous administration threatens our already weakened world reputation. When Obama says that we don’t torture, but refuses to outline reasonable definitions, refuses to investigate, refuses to prosecute, refuses to cancel extraordinary rendition then it’s as though he were swearing to make changes with his fingers crossed.
If Obama refuses to uphold the law and to prosecute those who wrote legal memo’s with intent to evade the law, those who set immoral and illegal policy, and those who gave the criminal orders for agents of The United States to commit torture thereby making our nation a lesser nation than it’s promise, then Barak Obama fails on his promise and becomes an accessory after the fact and part of the criminal conspiracy of the previous administration.
There are no two ways about this. If the president is afraid to do his job because of a political skirmish, then it incumbent upon congress to compel him to do so.
I urge you to conduct quick and thorough hearings into the medieval practices of the Bush administration. The American people’s reputation for justice is severely imperiled. We must take immediate and decisive steps.
Thank you
Daniel Wexler
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