Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for Obama on Change.Gov
January 9th, 2009 by 2CDC
Ari Melber, Correspondent for The Nation
Posted January 9, 2009 at Huffington Post
A whopping 70,000 questions poured into Change.gov over the past week, in response to the Obama transition team’s call for citizen queries to the president-elect. After votes from about 100,000 people, the top ranked question asks Obama whether he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture and illegal surveillance by the U.S. government.
I’ve been working with activist Bob Fertik to organize support for the question, and several progressive bloggers urged readers and Obama supporters to vote for it last week. Digby, who has written extensively about the Bush administration’s abuse of the rule of law, recently reported on the progress: Read the rest of this entry »
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