See posts, Comments below for more information. I am simply shocked!
See the live blog notes here on the Eric Holder, our Attorney General? Hearing Before the US House Subcommittee on Justice, etc. - Just Now --this afternoon.
here or simply go to afterdowningstreet dot org
Hearing may have also been covered by MSNBC
Crazy that hundreds onward of Rights groups, known activists & reporters (some LIVE before this hearing) have been following all of this for years, KNOW and have carefully documented the EVIDENCE for YEARS and yet US Attorney General, Eric Holder, says in Future Tense: " IF I see Evidence, I WILL...." How can he have been chosen for this job? What is the world thinking about such a lame answer as this?
ASK - Include in Op Ed - Rep Frank Wolf (R., Va.) asking that ALL the memos be released.
Also why in the world would our NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL imagine he can get by with not having asked to READ the remaining MEMOS by now? Why would he not have at least read Andy's book & articles & others like them? What about ICRC, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, many Jurist & other Legal statements and documents over 6 plus years time, National Pres. of the US Lawyer's Guild, etc. etc.
Instead, he said that he was "NOT FAMILIAR" with them - that he had "HEARD ABOUT THEM FROM CHENEY" - who would of course like to keep them a mystery, hidden away from Holder & the rest of us.
What is the excuse for this?
Nevertheless, there were some encouraging statements & questions, at least, put rather strongly to tentatively - out on one of the US tables of justice that should help us all to keep on keeping on! Now, we need to call EACH member of this committee to point out what was missing.
We need to encourage & Push legislators Russ Feingold, D. Feinstein and other leading legislators on the need for a Special Prosecutor along with citizens & Congress's need to Fire Judge Bybee...
More reasons why we can't let up on the PUSH for a Special Prosecutor: (Also go to this site to see related items - such as Media take over the years now coming out & also behind the scenes pride or regret by the torture architects...
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Torture-Related Documents Listing
By Chip
Created 2009-04-25 06:16
May 10, 2005, Bradbury memo to the CIA on legality of specific interrogation techniques [1]
May 30, 2005, Bradbury memo to the CIA on whether interrogation techniques violate U.N. Convention Against Torture (Part 1) [2]
May 30, 2005, Bradbury memo to the CIA on whether interrogation techniques violate U.N. Convention against Torture (Part 2) [3]
CIA Inspector General report 2004 [4]
Aug. 1, 2002, Bybee memo to CIA regarding treatment of Abu Zubaydah [5]
More here [6]
Source URL: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/42023
Links:
[1] http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2009/04/16/19/788-Taylor-OLC-torture-memo1.source.prod_affiliate.91.pdf
[2] http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2009/04/16/16/Taylor-OLC-CIAmemo3-1.source.prod_affiliate.91.pdf
[3] http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2009/04/16/16/Taylor-OLC-CIAmemo3-2.source.prod_affiliate.91.pdf
[4] http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2009/04/24/18/Seibel-CIA-2004.source.prod_affiliate.91.pdf
[5] http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2009/04/16/16/Taylor-OLC-CIAtorturememo-1.source.prod_affiliate.91.pdf
[6] http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/keydocuments