The torture memos released yesterday are a call to action. President Obama has done all he needs to do to enable us to rise up and demand accountability from those who directed and enabled torture. It's time.
Tuesday night at the monthly meeting of the largest county Democratic Party in the nation, Los Angeles, the vote was unanimous on a resolution calling for the impeachment of Judge Jay Bybee, author of the famous "torture memo" -- aka "the Bybee memo."
Unanimous. LACDP spoke with one loud, clear voice on this. Next week, we'll be working this resolution at the California Democratic Party Convention in Sacramento. And I hope Democrats (and Republicans, too) will join together in crafting resolutions calling for accountability. It's time to dismantle the Bush Administration's torture policy, and bring its facilitators to account.
The resolution urges impeachment for the man who signed the memo advising the CIA that torture is sometimes allowable under U.S. law, Jay Bybee. Thanks to yesterday's document release, more people than ever are learning who Jay Bybee really is. He's the guy who first signed off on CIA torture.
Resolution and more after the jump.
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