Here.
The Center for Constitutional Rights is calling for an investigation of what that organization calls the “torture team” — any government official, up to and including the President, who made decisions that resulted in torturing detainees. The organization is selling playing cards to support their cause.
It isn’t hard to answer the question: Who would Jesus torture. We lost our way and we need to find it back. I know we’ve talked about releasing torture photos and whether that’s a good thing, but torture was and is wrong. It’s a bloody smear on our history and I will go to my grave believing that the people responsible should be held accountable. It’s not about revenge. It’s about accountability, and we need to do this before more time passes and we let other issues take our attention. Or before those who might do so seek to cover it up. Or before we forget.
And thanks, Truthout, for the link.
Dating Jesus 
Alliance For Justice announces the release of its new documentary, Tortured Law, which examines the role lawyers played in authorizing torture. The film is being used to spark debate across the country, and calls on Attorney General Eric Holder to uphold the Constitution and the law by releasing the Justice Department’s report on the “torture memos” and authorizing a full investigation of those who ordered, designed, and justified torture.
I haven’t heard much on this end of the issue.
Watch the film and sign the petition.
Thanks, Leftover. Doctors and lawyers who authorized or participated (same thing, in my view) makde me wonder.
Is that a wrench being thrown into the works?
Ah, hell.
Yup. wrench.
Whoa!
Big Ol’ Wrench
I’m wondering what instrument or rule of law gives the Executive Branch the authority to instruct Congress to enact legislation for the sole purpose of avoiding a controversy brought before The Supreme Court?
I’m at a loss to rationalize the authority.
That seems to me to be an ugly abuse of power.
“….when the President formally declares a national emergency, he may seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, institute martial law, seize and control all transportation and communication, regulate the operation of private enterprise, restrict travel, and, in a variety of ways, control the lives of United States citizens.”
Dr. Harold C. Relyea
Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress
Obama Renews Bush’s 9/11 State of Emergency
by Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg
“The terrorist threat that led to the declaration on September 14, 2001, of a national emergency continues. For this reason, I have determined that it is necessary to continue in effect after September 14, 2009, the national emergency with respect to the terrorist threat.”
I guess that about covers it. Or rather, covers it up.
Yeah. Covered up real good.
“President Obama today signed into law a Homeland Security appropriations bill that grants the Department of Defense (DOD) the authority to continue suppressing photos of prisoner abuse.”
The DHS. That’s Lieberman.
Sweet.
Well, hell.