Tell President Bush & Congress:
TORTURE IS NOT AN AMERICAN VALUE
We, the undersigned, urge President Bush and our senators and representatives in Congress to stop the torture that threatens the safety of our troops should they fall into enemy hands and that has critically damaged the reputation of the United States around the world. We call for the following:
- A full investigation and independent prosecutor to look into the roles of high-ranking officials including Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales in torture at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and other U.S.-run facilities around the world.
- The Bush Administration's adherence to the Supreme Court's 2004 decisions allowing detainees in U.S. custody access to attorneys and the chance to hear the charges against them and to challenge their detentions in a court of law.
- An end to the practice of hiding thousands of ghost detainees from the International Committee of the Red Cross and beyond the reach of law.
- An end to the unlawful practice of extraordinary rendition whereby torture is outsourced to other countries.