Tuesday April 21, 2009, 11:49 pm
Noted & signed,petition # 64: Thanks for sharing!

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 12:09 am
we need to change our practices! since it has come to attention then it should b part of necessary evolution! always grow and learn from past mistakes

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 1:53 am
Noted & signed!

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 5:26 am
Signed,#76. Thanks Tom.

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 6:25 am
noted and signed

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 8:43 am
A former White House lawyer says that Barack Obama should not open probes into various illegalities and executive abuses by the Bush-Cheney regime: "A new president doesn't want to look vengeful," he intoned, adding that "the last thing a new administration wants to do is spend its time and energy rehashing the perceived sins of the old one."

But this is not about hash – it's about the Constitution, and it's not about vengeance, but about whether presidents and vice-presidents can use executive privilege and claims of war powers to subvert the rule of law.

We now know, for example, that even while the Bushites were publicly insisting that they didn't condone torture, they were aggressively practicing it in Guantanamo and elsewhere. Is there no reckoning for that? Or for spying illegally on millions of Americans? Or for unilaterally rewriting laws through the use of obscure signing statements? Or for politicizing the powerful role of federal prosecutors? Or for abusing the state secrets privilege in order to impose executive supremacy over the courts and Congress.

If we just shove all this in some White House closet, with no public airing of what went on, then the abuses become presidential precedents, sanctioning future presidents to pull them out of the closet whenever they want.

Also, Bush, Cheney, and their apologists now assert that even if there were illegal acts, it's OK because they made America safer. Well, did they really? If there's no digging into what happened and what actual effect it had, we have no truth and no guidance for the future.

Obama's White House shouldn't be the ones to do this job. Rather, Congress should take it on, or set up a no-nonsense investigative commission with full subpoena power to get down to the real truth. To know where we're going, we need to know exactly where we've been.

New York Times Calls For Impeachment Of Torture Memo Author

Video: Dick Cheney Demands Barack Obama Reveals Torture 'Success' Memos - Is This Guy for Real?

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 9:33 am
noted & signer #89

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 9:58 am
Signed & noted..
Thank you Tom..

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 12:42 pm
Signed and noted Tx Tom

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 12:54 pm
Eureka, thank you for signing "Waterboarding and Torture Demand Truth - Prosecute Now!"

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 1:19 pm
http://tinyurl.com/dkx6vn

ACLU Petition for CIA Torture Special Prosecutor

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 1:49 pm
Signed & noted, thanks, Tom !

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 4:31 pm
It's torture-there's no argument about that as far as I can see. I will certainly sign and thanks Tom

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 4:50 pm
Signed & noted.. no equivocation.. Torture is torture.. doesn't matter who does it. We punished others for it, do we hold others at a different standard??

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 5:33 pm
Do you object to anything your government does?  Are you a returning veteran?  Do you belong to a religious sect that believes in "right to life?"  Are you homeless?
 
If so, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, you are a "right wing extremist."
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Wednesday April 22, 2009, 6:54 pm
"David, thank you for signing "Waterboarding and Torture Demand Truth - Prosecute Now!"...Not a problem Tom...But why are the perpetrators not in jail or preferabl;y dead?...Is the CIA letting us down again?

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 11:47 pm

# 137:
11:46 pm PDT, Apr 22, Sue Whitney, California
By not prosecuting ALL concerned you are not holding up the Constitution of the United States. You are in fact letting the people of this great country and the world down.

Oh, what I would give to really say what is on my mind!

Thursday April 23, 2009, 1:55 am
Say it Sue!...It is pathetic that the world goes around but does not throw these people off!

Thursday April 23, 2009, 2:38 am
Thank you David. It is time that Obama steps up to the plate. Put an end to all CIA, FBI activites once and for all. Stop instigating and funding all wars along with England. Including Israeli and Palastinians. Northern Ireland and Southern. Stop lying about other leaders, including Iran. Ban any and all activities related to bailouts and demand all monies be returned. Demand a real and truthful investigation of 9/11, Forget the trial and put the Elite into jail, hold them indefinitely, take away all of their homes and possessions and never return them as they would do to us, then demand that waterboarding and other Psychiatric crimes of humanity be upheld at least 183 times before demand that Psychiatry be abolished from making the US and the rest of the world into brain dead zombies that cannot see what is going on, deliberately. Demand the media be responsible for accurate reporting not under the elites control and instead of reporting bad news only that which is good, supportive and gives hope. But most of all reinstate our Constitution in full now!
Now that would be real change!

Thursday April 23, 2009, 7:17 am
Signed

Thursday April 23, 2009, 12:28 pm
done

Saturday April 25, 2009, 1:09 am
These people must be held responsible for their actions. How would they feel if waterboarding was used on them?

Sunday April 26, 2009, 12:05 pm
I am definately against torture.....and I gladly signed....I would like to hear the truth, one which we all know.......

Saturday May 2, 2009, 8:00 am
Noted and signed: "# 225: 7:56 am PDT, May 2, Carolyn Tonahill, Louisiana"; thank you!

Sunday May 10, 2009, 4:39 pm
We signed the “Waterboarding and Torture Demand Truth - Prosecute Now!” petition! # 263: 4:39 pm PDT, May 10, Anita Kofta, Wisconsin

Tuesday December 15, 2009, 2:39 am
Hitler's officials said they were only following orders. Is the American conscience still in that era? I applaud OBAMA for preventing subsequent torturing but I kindly ask to give psychological support to those who participated and then take them before an ethics jury to accept their responsability. "Just following orders" is a completely outmoded excuse in the twenty-first century.

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