Eric Holder Get to Work

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