It isn't a matter of having let one thing go so why worry about this, this is the one that has the most going for it in terms of making charges stick. Supposed indifference to other transgressions of the law is not a defense for anything that crosses into being completely unnacceptable and easily proven. The process of investigating and charging top officials is not something to be entered into lightly, but we have an administration that has made disregard for the law and it's checks and balances so commonplace that the overall feeling starts to be easily confused with acceptance. Nixon was going to be impeached for a wiretapping scandal that wasn't even in the same league as what Bush has done.

With this administration ramped up and aggressively covering illegal acts and getting long wanted legislations favorable to big business interest the easiest way to eliminate six more months of insidious concessions and vetos would be to charge Bush and Cheney with something that has criminal charges and let them sit the rest of the term on the bench. It doesn't take much imagination to see that Bush will have an exiting pardon list that looks like a phone book, this country shouldn't have to honor criminally motivated pardons.

At this point we are going to be forced to react to any illegal act that can be proven simply to acknowledge that it is not been okay to repeatedly exhibit a blatant disregard for any aspect of laws and their checks and balances. There is so much that this administration has done in the way of illegally committing funding and projects and covering for situations where illegal acts were discovered and proved that the process of indicting Bush and other key players is inevitable, if for no other reason than it does send a message that we are not supporting illegal behaviors for some.

Passing any more legislation that gives retroactive immunity should be stopped as should we negate the ability of Bush to give pardons and immunity for anyone for illegal acts. We are going to be entering into a new administration that will need to aggressively undo an incredible array of insidious long term committments to big money giveaways. The only thing that will make it possible is to place Bush and his administration under a blanket of acknowledged and proved criminal indictments so that there is no difficulty overriding and reversing anything that doesn't make good sense.

That anyone at the highest levels of authority could ignore the military officers in charge of an offshore prison when they are saying that at least 30% and possibly more than 50% were being incorrectly detained is well over the lines of the most hideous forms of cruelty and disregard for human rights that could be found. It serves as a textbook example of why oversight and accountability for rules is an absolute requirement. These acts would be judged by the rest of the civilized worls as modern day war crimes and there is no possible justification for us to cover them up or let anyone get away with it. Every single person who was erroneously rounded up as part of terrorist activity that was innocent is a separate charge that those responsible should have to answer for.

So far this administration has been very good at refusing to testify in inquiries, evidence is withheld under the guise of being a threat to national security, and Bush has pardoned those who are prosecuted and sentenced.

It seems that the FISA bill that was just passed may be open to a repeal based on the grounds that everything was under such secrecy that very few who voted for it knew what they were giving immunity for. Prosecution for torture and illegal detainment would open the door for a repeal.

Torture and improper detainment may be one of the easier things to actually make meaningful charges stick. Illegal wiretapping was another as long as certain documentation was deemed to not be a threat to national security. Once we decide to push one issue that can be made to stick it will be far easier to get to the bottom of anything else that needs to be addressed over time.

We stand as the example to the world of the best example of human rights possible. Detainment of innocent people was made possible by the whole process being above the law and without oversight from illegal wiretaps through to torture. We stand as the example of the best freedom and protection for our people as can be found anywhere in the world. The message needs to be clearly proven that it is not okay for a president and administration to run unstopped as this one has. Enough is enough, lets leave this worst administration ever as an example of what will not be tolerated not as an example of what we will allow.