Reminder: "Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for Obama on Change.Gov"

it's not like he doesn't know what the people want. I can only suppose, at this point, that a cover-up takes precedence.
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/09-12


Published on Friday, January 9, 2009 by The Nation

Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for Obama on Change.Gov
by Ari Melber

A whopping 70,000 questions poured into Change.gov over the past week, in response to the Obama transition team's call for citizen queries to the President-Elect. After votes from about 100,000 people, the top ranked question asks Obama whether he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture and illegal surveillance by the U.S. government. I've been working with activist Bob Fertik to organize support for the question, and several progressive bloggers urged readers and Obama supporters to vote for it last week. Digby, who has written extensively about the Bush administration's abuse of the rule of law, recently reported on the progress:

I wrote a post about initiative spearheaded by Ari Melber of The Nation and Democrats.com to ask President-elect Obama if he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate war crimes in the Bush administration over at Change.gov. (In a previous round, it was the sixth most asked question...) This time, through their efforts, it's number one. This is particularly important, since the press has only asked Obama about this one time, last April. And a lot has happened since then, most obviously the fact that Vice President is all over television admitting to war crimes as if he's proud of it.
Then The New York Times picked up the news:



he number one submission on the popular "Open for Questions" portion of the site might seem more than a little impolitic to : "Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor -- ideally Patrick Fitzgerald -- to independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping," wrote Bob Fertik of New York, who runs the Web site, Democrats.com.
Though the Obama team has promised to answer some of the top questions as early as this week, they have not said whether they will respond to Mr. Fertik's, which has received more than 22,000 votes since the second round of the question-and-answer feature began on Dec. 30. The site logged more than 1.5 million votes for 20,000-plus questions... The second highest-ranked submission, which is about oversight of the nation's banking industry, is several thousand of votes behind the query about a special prosecutor. Mr. Fertik's question has been pushed to the top, in part, by a coalition of liberal bloggers...

..more..

The ones he'll actually answer already have answers that can be found easily.

The United States performed torture. The current Administration is making an accpeted official policy and continues to defend it to this day by virtue of its lack of action against those who broke international law.

:tinfoilhat:

Your views on this are well known - you repeatedly interupt serious discussion with this clap-trap notion that Obama can do no wrong and that he hasn't had time to address this minor issue. Its isn't constructive.

Obama has one job and one job only...to put Bush in jail...blah, blah, blah....

This broken record of it's all up to Obama and nobody else to prosecute Bush and if he doesn't the world is going to end gets a little old especially after you and your Obama-can-do-no-right pals post your cut and paste alarmist if it's posted in the internet it must be true crapola from the same old websites over and over and over again.

Sorry, my world doesn't start and end with prosecuting Bush.

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that Jonathan Turley is "nonpartisan."

It has hardly even appeared in the MSM at this point.
I've been tracking it on Google News here:

CIA Has 3,000 Docs on Torture Tapes
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5303329

"appoint a Special Prosecutor -- ideally Patrick Fitzgerald -- ..." WOW there!

Patrick Fitzgerald is the Republican USA who gave Bush, Cheney, and Rove a free pass on Valierie Plame.

--the 2nd-biggest requested change was legalization of marijuana. We all know how much he cares about THAT request. He didn't even feel the need to PRETEND anymore that he cared about "change" or what the people want. He thinks he's king shit now, with his 80% approval (hey--Bush was at 90% once, so he still has some catching up to do to king shit I), but I predict that will soon be declining. The disillusion I hear from some formerly very, very strong supporters is astounding. My brother and SIL were adamant, enthusiastic early supporters who convinced our whole family how "great" he was--now my brother says he's "just Bush with darker skin, and that's how everybody around here feels now" (in his area of California).

war crimes? coverup? who cares when the billionaires have your back?