Keep the heat on for accountability

One of the people who is doing just that is Rachel Maddow. Watch this piece from her show on June 17, 2009.

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Senator Whitehouse also continues to fight the good fight. His hearing on torture was extremely enlightening.

In this Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Sheldon questions Attorney General Eric Holder about the status of the Office of Professional Responsibility report into the Bush Administrations detention and interrogation program, the role of the CIA in assessing the report, and the importance of releasing its findings.

Also the ACLU keeps on keeping on, bravo! Here is a look at their FOIA timeline. Keep up the great work ACLU and don't forget to contribute to them if you can.



Finally, a link back to my previous post on torture. This includes links to a couple petitions for both a truth commission and prosecution.

I realize there are many important things going on in the world and tough issues to tackle here at home but we cannot move forward without getting accountability for the atrocities our country committed under the Bush administration.

Torture

Everyday there seems to be new developments on this "torture issue" and I think that the issue continues to get clouded. It is not a question of weather torture produces quality intelligence and it's not a question of what is faster in the stupid ticking bomb scenario. The question is simply is it right? And the answer is no.

Now we are no longer engaged in using torture thanks to President Obama keeping a campaign promise but shouldn't there be some accountability for those who implemented torture as a justified method of interrogation? After all it was illegal when the Bush administration implemented this torture program.

Useful reading

The Torture Moment : Arianna Huffington
The Truth About Richard Bruce Cheney : Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson
Emptywheel


Petitions

For special prosecutor
Truth commission