By GottaLaff
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Dear Russ Feingold, Thank you sincerely. Love, Laffy:
As you know by now, I am passionate about holding those accountable who were responsible for authorizing the torture and brutality. All of them.
All my previous posts on this subject matter can be found here; That link includes audio and video interviews with Lt. Col. Wingard, one by David Shuster, one by Ana Marie Cox, and more. My guest commentary at BuzzFlash is here.
If you are inclined to help rectify these injustices: Twitterers, use the hashtag #FreeFayiz. We have organized a team to get these stories out. If you are interested in helping Fayiz out, e-mail me at The Political Carnival, address in sidebar to the right; or tweet me at @GottaLaff.
If you'd like to see other ways you can take action, go here and scroll down to the end of the article.
Then read Jane Mayer's book The Dark Side. You'll have a much greater understanding of why I post endlessly about this, and why I'm all over the CIA deception issues, too.
In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, the Wisconsin Democrat urged the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into recent revelations about the CIA's Bush-era interrogation program. [...]Key: [I] also to urge you to focus on holding accountable the architects of the CIA's interrogation program. While allegations that individuals may have even gone beyond what was justified by those now-public [Office of Legal Counsel] memos are extremely disturbing, we should not lose sight of the fact that the program itself -- as authorized -- was illegal, not to mention immoral and unwise."
This past week, reports have surfaced that Holder is in the process of deciding whether to appoint a special investigator or prosecutor to look into past interrogation policies. New information about these policies was provided to his office in a classified 2004 CIA Inspector General report. The subject matter is different than the covert program that the CIA reportedly kept secret from Congress at the behest of former Vice President Dick Cheney. But for Feingold, it is no less significant.
As you know by now, I am passionate about holding those accountable who were responsible for authorizing the torture and brutality. All of them.
All my previous posts on this subject matter can be found here; That link includes audio and video interviews with Lt. Col. Wingard, one by David Shuster, one by Ana Marie Cox, and more. My guest commentary at BuzzFlash is here.
If you are inclined to help rectify these injustices: Twitterers, use the hashtag #FreeFayiz. We have organized a team to get these stories out. If you are interested in helping Fayiz out, e-mail me at The Political Carnival, address in sidebar to the right; or tweet me at @GottaLaff.
If you'd like to see other ways you can take action, go here and scroll down to the end of the article.
Then read Jane Mayer's book The Dark Side. You'll have a much greater understanding of why I post endlessly about this, and why I'm all over the CIA deception issues, too.
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5 comments:
TexasLou = man crush on Russ Feingold.
Third world nations torture, have hit squads, use the military as their sole strength and spy on dissenters. Then for a finale, they cooperate with each other to cover up and keep their power.
Darn, Lanky, I wish you'd email me already.
This all leds me to believe we are becoming a third world country.
For years I have hoped Russ Feingold would eventually become President of the United States. He really has the brilliant honest bluntness that our country badly needs right now and is also so lacking in Obama. With Feingold, DADT would already be history, the major part of the health care bill would be the public option, and yes - as this article implies - there would already ongoing prosecution for war crimes and fraud under Title 18, Section 371.
But Obama is many times the persuader and power-broker that Feingold is ... and thus goes history.
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