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Disbar The Dirty Dozen
CNN is reporting; Groups seek disbarment for Bush's top lawyers:
The collation contends that their licenses should be revoked for "moral turpitude." Zeese calls disbarment "an important step toward the ultimate accountability of criminal prosecution."
There is lots of information on the sites including the State Bar Complaints against the dirty dozen as well as the exhibits attached to each complaint. There are petitions to sign, donations to make, and T-shirts to buy.
Other supporting groups include: Republicans for Impeachment, Progressive Democrats of America, Prosecute Bush/Cheney, After Downing Street, Justice Through Music, Iraq Veterans for Justice, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Consumers for Peace, and Reclaim the GOP.
Kinda has a sixties feel. I like that.
President Obama has a lot on his plate - this is a good way for us to help out.
Please share what you learn. Let's take back our democracy...
A coalition of progressive groups sought Monday to have 12 Bush administration lawyers disbarred for their roles in crafting the legal rationale for so-called enhanced interrogation techniques that many view as torture.The groups include; VotersForPeace.US, and VelvetRevolution.US. The lawyers targeted are; David Addington, John Ashcroft, Stephen Bradbury, Jay Bybee, Michael Chertoff, Douglas Feith, Alice Fisher, Timothy Flanigan, Alberto Gonzales, William Haynes II, Michael Mukasey and John Yoo.
"It is time to hold these lawyers accountable for violating their legal oath," Kevin Zeese, an attorney for the coalition, said in a written statement.
The collation contends that their licenses should be revoked for "moral turpitude." Zeese calls disbarment "an important step toward the ultimate accountability of criminal prosecution."
There is lots of information on the sites including the State Bar Complaints against the dirty dozen as well as the exhibits attached to each complaint. There are petitions to sign, donations to make, and T-shirts to buy.
Other supporting groups include: Republicans for Impeachment, Progressive Democrats of America, Prosecute Bush/Cheney, After Downing Street, Justice Through Music, Iraq Veterans for Justice, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Consumers for Peace, and Reclaim the GOP.
Kinda has a sixties feel. I like that.
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.The Times They Are A-Changin' - Bob Dylan, ©1963
President Obama has a lot on his plate - this is a good way for us to help out.
Please share what you learn. Let's take back our democracy...
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This makes me feel better after dealing with the stupid MSM Supreme Court Headline suggesting no officials will be held accountable for abuse... idiots!!
Combined actions like this, coalitions, that's what we need to learn how to do to get accountability and real healthcare reform, etc.
May 18, 2009 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
"coalitions, that's what we need "
Couldn't agree more. I'm signed up for a bakers dozen...
May 18, 2009 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Check this out, Ventura And Hasselbeck Debate Waterboarding On The View
Jessie pins her ears back.
Whose the "tool," Elisabeth?
May 18, 2009 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ventura is such a nut. But he would come up with some epiphanies that would send anyone with a thought on their ass. He is sooo good when he is goood.
What a job. And he gets featured all over cable with that stance. Great job Jesse.
May 19, 2009 1:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
He did it again on Faux Noise this morning offering to waterboard Kilmeade. Chris Kofinis made the same offer to a Rep flunky on MSNBC.
Jessie also made the case that Pelosi is not the problem torture is - why can't the Dems do that?
May 19, 2009 10:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Dirty Dozen has some overlap with the Torture 13 in the Salon article I've posted. How long will the list be by the time all of the torturers and their apologists are added up?
May 18, 2009 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
astral's excellent blog Salon's "Torture 13": Dick Cheney and the People Who Helped Make Torture Possible
May 19, 2009 10:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Please, tell me there are only a dozen! My heart sinks every time I here there are more people who can find not objection to these heinous acts. A dozen is 12 too many.
May 19, 2009 12:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
How did I miss this? The Times They Are Achangin?
Geez. I suppose Astral has a bakers dozen.
Hell, try all twenty five.
Great links. Great post Steve.
May 18, 2009 11:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have to admit though I'm only 31, I adore Bob Dylan's early stuff from 61-65, especially the one quoted above. Then again, I still listen to old 78s...
May 19, 2009 12:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
What "legal oath" did these lawyers violate?
I'm not saying they didn't, but I haven't yet read the oath and before I reach a conclusion I'd like to examine the premise.
May 19, 2009 12:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
From teh Google:
This pertains to every officer in the executive branch and federal government employees, except the President (and maybe the Supremes?)
May 19, 2009 8:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Moral turitude. It's fucking immoral! Get it, Eccesiastes?!?!?!?!? For Christ's sake, figure it out!!!!!! Are you throwing your Bible at people or do you read it once in a while. Check out the books at the back, it's called the New Testament.
May 19, 2009 12:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lawyers also take an oath when they join the bars of the respective states where they are licensed to practice law. I can't say for sure without researching the issue, which I don't have time to do at the moment, but it's possible that having taken part in the torture initiative would violate some part of the state-bar oaths, as well.
May 19, 2009 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you for the links sir.
May 19, 2009 5:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
The song that keeps going through my head is "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead". I like yours better!
Linus wags tail at Murray. Woof!
May 19, 2009 8:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Murry says "hello Linus." He's sniffing the keyboard.
Now, you got me singing...ding dong....
May 19, 2009 10:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Here's a question; what's it gonna' cost these clowns to defend themselves?
Could this be part of Obama's plan to get the economy going? My kind of stimulus.
May 19, 2009 10:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
This whole story is moving so fast. I think it's unstoppable now. Disbarments are just a start. A good one. But still, not going far enough.
May 19, 2009 1:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Rule by patience, Laughing Water!" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha (pt. X, Hiawatha's Wooing)
May 19, 2009 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Dirty Dozen, Twelve Angry Men, The Republican Rat Pack, The Neocon 12-pack, coming soon to a Federal Penitentiary near you. (Hmm, they talk about how dangerous it would be to hold terrorists on U.S. soil. I'd be more frightened if David Addington was incarcerated in my home state.)
Good links, good post.
May 19, 2009 1:27 PM | Reply | Permalink