Voters For Peace: The power to end the war and prevent future wars of aggression

Write your elected representatives in Congress as well as the President and Attorney General to urge disbarment, conduct hearings to investigate torture and appoint a special prosecutor.

May 21, 2013

Subject:
Disbar the Torture Lawyers and Appoint a Special Prosecutor

I urge you to hold torturers and those who formulated the policy of torture
accountable to the rule of law. Three steps are needed:

1. The attorneys who facilitated torture should be disbarred. This includes 12 Bush-Cheney lawyers: John Yoo, Judge Jay Bybee, and Stephen Bradbury who authored the torture memoranda. Included in the twelve are the
attorneys who advised, counseled, consulted and supported those memoranda including Alberto Gonzales, John Ashcroft, Michael Chertoff, Alice Fisher, William Haynes II, Douglas Feith, Michael Mukasey, Timothy Flanigan, and David Addington.

2. The Congress should hold hearings that publicly investigate torture. These hearings should cover the ultimate use of statements made under torture. Hearings should also investigate the issue of whether legal advice
given on the issue of torture was well-founded or ethical.

3. Appoint a special prosecutor.  The issue of torture needs to be removed from partisan politics and the rule of law needs to be applied.

Application of the rule of law, beginning with disbarment and followed by appointment of a special prosecutor, along with public airing of all aspects of the torture policy are  all necessary parts of the process of healing the nation and putting these war crimes behind us.

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