Update: please see Act now for ways you can help advocate for both ideas!
With less than 36 hours to go in change.org’s Ideas for Change in America competition, Get FISA Right has voted overwhelmingly (30-2) to endorse Bob Fertik’s Appoint a Special Prosecutor for the Crimes of the Bush Administration.
Please advocate for Bob’s idea, which has climbed to 14th place with 6370 votes, as well as our own Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties (currently in #7 with 9565). Please also consider joining the Facebook group Appoint a Special Prosecutor to Investigate Bush Administration War Crimes. I’ll include more details in the “24 hours to go” last-minute instructions later today.
Members’ opinions, on both side of the issue, are in the voting thread and earlier discussion thread (here and here) for members’ opinions … a few highlights from “yes” votes:
Sally G:
We must defend the Constitution; whereas we must move forward, we cannot allow the Bush-administration precedents to stand. Nixon’s misconduct led to the passage of FISA; current attempts to short-circuit the Constitution must be followed up similarly.
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