The best kept secret of the Bush's war crimes is that thousands of children have been imprisoned, tortured, and otherwise denied rights under the Geneva Conventions. Congress and the media have strangely failed to identify the very existence of chidren.

Holdouts from the Bush Administration are in closed-door talks with Japanese officials at the International Whaling Commission. Tell President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the NOAA to replace the Bush appointees now before it's too late!

Time is running out to save the polar bear and other endangered species. As their sea ice habitat disappears, polar bears are starving and drowning, and mothers and cubs are dying as their snow dens collapse on them due to a warming climate.

Before leaving office, the Bush Administration snuck through midnight regulations that weaken the Endangered Species Act, making it harder to protect polar bears, gray wolves, Canadian lynx, pacific salmon and thousands of other endangered species.

"This demonstration project could save many wolves' from being gunned down from the air by federal hunters or trapped and either killed or taken into captivity," said Michael Robinson of the Center for Biological Diversity.

Just last month, a Connecticut woman was severely mauled by a 200+ pound pet chimpanzee. Ask your senators to support the The Captive Primate Safety Act of 2009 (H.R. 80 / S. 462) which prohibits interstate and foreign commerce in primates as pets.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has provided undeniable documentation of torture at Guantánamo. Yet the Justice Department has failed to prosecute any civilians for crimes related to interrogation, except a single contractor in June 2004.

The Bush administration constantly abused the "state secrets" doctrine to escape accountability for illegal behavior. This petition supports the State Secrets Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 984) to allow victims of government wrongdoing to seek justice.

President Obama issued an executive order and two presidential memoranda last week proclaiming a new transparency in the workings of the federal government. His sweeping reversals of torture and state secret policies are about to face an early test.

It's tough being a wolf these days: Find food, find a pack, find a state boundary map, find a lawyer. On April 2 next week, a revised plan to remove the carnivores from federal Endangered Species Act protection should be published in the Federal Register.