Groups Request Special Prosecutor for Bush and Cheney

Statement on prosecution of former high level officials.

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(MALIBU, Calif.) - A long list of groups is calling for a legal case against former President George W. Bush and former Vice-President Dick Cheney.

Here is the letter seeking the prosecution of two of the United State's former leaders:

We urge Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a non-partisan independent Special Counsel to immediately commence a prosecutorial investigation into the most serious alleged crimes of former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Richard B. Cheney, the attorneys formerly employed by the Department of Justice whose memos sought to justify torture, and other former top officials of the Bush Administration.

Our laws, and treaties that under Article VI of our Constitution are the supreme law of the land, require the prosecution of crimes that strong evidence suggests these individuals have committed. Both the former president and the former vice president have confessed to authorizing a torture procedure that is illegal under our law and treaty obligations. The former president has confessed to violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

We see no need for these prosecutions to be extraordinarily lengthy or costly, and no need to wait for the recommendations of a panel or “truth” commission when substantial evidence of the crimes is already in the public domain. We believe the most effective investigation can be conducted by a prosecutor, and we believe such an investigation should begin immediately.

Drafted by The Robert Jackson Steering Committee

Signed By:

• Center for Constitutional Rights
• ccrjustice.org
• The National Lawyers Guild
• After Downing Street
• American Freedom Campaign
• Ann Wright, retired US Army Reserve Colonel and US diplomat
• Backbone Campaign
• Brad Blog
• Cities for Peace
• CODE PINK: Women for Peace
• Daniel Ellsberg, Truth-Telling Project
• Defending Dissent Foundation
• Delaware Valley Veterans for America
• Democrats.com
• Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
• Gold Star Families for Peace
• Grandmothers Against the War
• Grassroots America
• High Road for Human Rights Advocacy Project
• Iraq Veterans Against the War
• Justice Through Music
• Marcus Raskin, co-founder of Institute for Policy Studies, member of editorial board of the /Nation/, member of the special staff of the National Security Council in the Kennedy Administration
• Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored
• Naomi Wolf, author of /End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot/, and /Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries/
• National Accountability Network
• Northeast Impeachment Coalition
• Op Ed News
• Peace Action
• Peace Team
• The Progressive
• Progressive Democrats of America
• Republicans for Impeachment
• United for Peace and Justice
• Velvet Revolution
• afterdowningstreet.org/vips
• Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
• Veterans for Peace
• Voters for Peace
• War Crimes Times
• Wisconsin Impeachment/Bring Our Troops Home Coalition
• World Can't Wait