[R-G] Action Page: Investigate Cheney's Assassination Ring

[james m nordlund]

Action Page: Investigate Cheney's Personal Assassination Ring
Remember when former Vice President used to claim that he constituted 
a peculiar fourth branch of government unto himself, claiming 
executive privilege as part of the executive branch, while with the 
next breath refusing to obey executive branch record keeping laws? 
Now we beginning to find out what that fourth branch of government 
actually was . . . his own private worldwide assassination ring. 
Somehow we don't recall the U.S. Constitution providing for such a 
fourth co-equal branch of our government. 
Even those who argue that the president has the power as "commander 
in chief" to commit war crimes with impunity, do not argue that the 
Vice President should be able to order operate his own war crimes 
franchise independent of the president. And yet, according to Seymour 
Hersh, a most reliable source, that is exactly what took place. 
Cheney was running his own personal assassination squad, reporting 
directly to himself. 
Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum944.php 
Is there no level of treason outrageous enough to get one of the 
other two branches of government to confront these crimes against the 
Constitution? The justice department must immediately appoint a 
special prosecutor. Failing that, Congress must launch its own 
investigation, as called for by the always heroic Dennis Kucinich, to 
get to the bottom of this. Please submit this action page to speak 
out to them all. 
We are doing alerts on many other issues as you all know. For 
example, continuing to press for single payer health care which the 
overwhelming majority favor if asked, and to derail proposals that 
would actually harm the safety of our food supply even more, while we 
work on our own positive alternatives. But the staggering criminality 
of the previous administration cannot be swept under the rug without 
endorsing even worse abuses for the future, so we must stay on that 
as well. 
One need only observe how quickly Congress can move when there is 
real public outrage, like over the AIG bonus scandal, to realize that 
all we need to do is speak out in sufficient numbers to instantly 
have any policy change we want. We did not even have to do an alert 
on that one. They say these were "retention" bonuses. We happen to 
think the kind of retention those recipients deserve is arrest and 
incarceration, for fraud on a scale that dwarfs even Madoff. 
This is just a way of saying the purpose of this resource has always 
been to encourage more people to speak out more often. When we are 
most successful in doing that, we DO have policy victories. All we 
have to do to achieve more such victories is to believe that our 
voices really can have an impact, and to act on that belief.