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Center For Constitutional Rights


Dear Friend:

Last week we added Gonzales to the war crimes suit we filed with the German prosecutor that charges Rumsfeld and other high-ranking officials with responsibility for torture at Abu Ghraib. Despite the thousands of letters many of you sent, the evidence, and the legal merits of the case, Rumsfeld strong-armed the German government into refusing the suit before he would agree to attend an important security conference in Munich.

We knew this would be a long fight: we'll be re-arguing the case in 10 days, submitting additional papers and appealing to a higher court in Germany. Please take a minute to sign a letter demanding the appointment of a Special Prosecutor here in the U.S.

Those of you who joined us in standing up early to oppose the Gonzales nomination made a real difference - the debate began with a ranking Democratic Senator hugging Mr. Gonzales and calling him a non-divisive choice for Attorney General and ended with every one of the eight Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee doing their moral duty and voting no on the nomination of an architect of torture.

Thank you for acting and speaking out. We promise we'll be judicious in calling on you and won't clog your mailbox with endless appeals and symbolic actions. We want you to know that when we ask, we think we can make a real difference.

If you'd like to show your support for the critical work we do by making a donation, please click here.

Please look for more from us in the coming weeks on the military's Stop Loss policy of enforced extended tours of duty. As always, please forward this far and wide!

Yours,
Ron Daniels and Michael RatnerExecutive Director and President, Center for Constitutional Rights


P.S. Last week we filed a petition on behalf of 570 John Does at the Guantanamo Bay interrogation camp. The Supreme Court ruled that Guantanamo was not a law-free zone in CCR's successful suit last June, but the Bush Administration has done everything in its power to deny the detainees access to due process. We continue to fight them every step of the way.

For more information about CCR's mission and work, please visit .ccr-ny.org


----I beg of anyone reading this to sign this petition. The stink of TORTURE has fouled ALL of us. The only Patriotic thing to do now is bring to justice those who so cruely dis-regarded both domestic and international LAW...---


The Petition is at :

http://hq.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ccr/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=394