Tell Holder: Don't exempt Cheney from torture probe.

		This may be our best chance for a Cheney accountability moment. Start torture investigation with Cheney Tell Attorney General Holder to investigate torture starting at the top. Newsweek reported Saturday that Attorney General Eric Holder is considering appointing a prosecutor to investigate whether the Bush administration illegally tortured terrorism suspects. A decision is expected in the next few weeks. Tell Holder to investigate torture, and to start with former Vice President Dick Cheney and his legal adviser David Addington. Sources suggest that a Department of Justice investigation of torture — if ordered by Holder — is likely to focus solely on those who went beyond the legal boundaries set by the administration officials who provided a legal framework for torture — but not the architects of the torture program themselves. The Department of Justice and Attorney General Holder must give a prosecutor the ability to hold the torture architects responsible. Narrowly confining a torture probe to low level foot soldiers would fall short of the accountability moment required to protect our constitution from further abuse. Click here to tell Attorney General Holder to assign a prosecutor to investigate torture, and focus the probe not on low level interrogators who crossed the line but start at the top with torture architects Cheney and Addington. Thank you for working to build a better world. Becky Bond, Political Director CREDO Action from Working Assets Get Facebook updates on torture and other progressive campaigns Click here to check it out!

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