War Crimes

As you will see from this post the topics will be really wide ranging.
In an interview with ABC news Vice President Dick Cheney admitted to supporting and authorizing the torture of prisoners including waterboarding. This goes against the Geneva Convention and puts our country in a very difficult position when we accuse others of violating the Geneva Convention and civil rights in general.

Last night on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley, from Georgetown University, spoke to this issue and said that we as citizens need to raise our voices in protest and make sure that some action is taken to restore our legal system in the area of war crimes. The link to his interview is here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#28269477

I hope that you will all listen to this and then write to your legislators and President elect Obama and urge them to do something about this. We need to raise our voices against this form of illegality.

I have written to my senators and we will see what happens. I'll let you all know of any response that I get although typically it will be about 5 weeks to 2 months before a response comes.