The memos just confirm what we already know. And the economy is uppermost on people's minds so they have little attention to spare to the prosecution. And there's a mood now of apathy thinking that they won't do anything anyway. Plus for me, there've been opinion pieces stating that the real work is going on behind the scenes and we won't hear anything about it until it's a done-deal.

Attorney General Eric Holder is not detecting outrage over the torture issue because he is not reading articles and letters at progressive sites like Salon or Commondreams.org. So instead of just writing another outraged letter to a largely already convinced audience, send one directly to him at this email address:

AskDOJ@usdoj.gov.

This will remove any excuse he might have for having not having been exposed to outraged demands for investigation and prosecution. Below is a copy of my letter sent to him this afternoon:

"Dear Attorney General Holder

"In a recent Newsweek article you were quoted as saying that you lacked motivation to proceed with investigation and prosecution of those Bush Administration officials who planned and executed the torture of prisoners in the custody of the United State government because you had not detected sufficient outrage on the part of the public.

"First, I was unaware that expressions of public outrage were prerequisites to investigation of criminal activity. I thought that as law enforcement personnel became aware of the probability that significant violations of the law had occurred they would proceed with a thorough investigation.

"Secondly, if you need to view expressions of outrage to initiate investigation and prosecution, I refer you to articles and letters to the editor found at salon.com and commondreams.org, and doubtless other websites, where, unfiltered and unedited by factotums of the corporate-controlled mainstream media, the true voice of the American People can be figuratively heard.

"Thirdly, if you cannot be bothered to do a little research, at least listen to the opinion of this American Citizen: the Bush Administration's torture (aka "enhanced interrogation") program was a violation of federal law, which you are sworn to uphold, a violation of international law and the Geneva Convention, and a filthy stain on the reputation of the United States. The contempt these people, from President Bush and Vice-president Cheney on down, expressed for truth, justice, and law is the moral equivalent of using the United States flag and the U.S. Constitution as toilet paper. This Republic cannot endure if the officers endowed by the People with the most political, economic, and military power, use that power to sadistically abuse persons under their direct control and then are in effect given immunity from prosecution for those crimes. That is the way things are done in a totalitarian regime. In a Republic, the empowered leaders should rightfully bear an enhanced liability for criminal abuse. We have put our trust in you to defend the law and Constitution to preserve liberty and justice for all.

"If you are keeping a tally of expressions of outrage, chalk one up on my behalf, then go visit some of those websites."

Eric Holder will do the thing he believes is right, based on all of his findings, which we do not have. He will also need to figure out this secret Cheney wiretapping thing-ey. He could keep busy for the next 20 years on the previous Administration. I need to trust that the man will pick and choose and do the right thing. What a mess.

Clearly 'Inside the Beltway' is a very insular place. They hear what they want to hear, when it's Politically Convenient (the real definition of P.C.) to do so. They tried pulling this stunt over the Public Option. Then they went home for the Fourth of July. They got the kind of earful from 72(+)% of us that put the Public Option right back on the table. I have been writing my elected representatives, Pelosi, the DSCC, the DNC, Obama and Holder regularly about recovering our Nation's rightful place at the moral and ethical table by, "Investigating, Indicting, Trying and Incarcerating these Felons," about every other week for the past six months. America is burdened with a superabundance of corporotocratic politicians and a dearth of Statesmen. This is the way the people who buy D.C., a politician at a time like it. As Deep Throat said during Watergate, "Follow the Money." I want to see the Bush administration prosecuted so badly I can taste it. If you feel as I do then join me in raining communications down upon the heads of our bought-&-paid-for representatives until they get the point that no amount of money will get them re-elected should they thwart our will. If we don't express that will directly they won't ever hear it let alone pay attention. The MSM has been created specifically to shelter them and a massive segment of the American population from the truth. Bypass the MSM and pour it down their throats until they swallow it or choke to death. This is the only way to get anything meaningful accomplished inside the Beltway from the Grassroots.

....I'm still waiting for an answer on the question of what to do with these "illegally detained" pillars of the community. But Salonistas have a habit of ignoring inconvenient questions they're unable answer. Far better to redirect the conversation to a past event that happened to a handful, rather than address a question relevent to the present.......

Maybe we should rent Spike Lee's, Do The Right Thing and give it to President Obama so he will understand that he should not interfere with the pursuit of justice and allow Attorney General Holder to investigate and if necessary prosecute Bush officials for war crimes.

"Newsweek has a must-read profile of Attorney General Eric Holder this week, headlined provocatively: "Holder May Probe Bush-era Torture." But it's more than a scoop about Holder's plans to investigate and possibly prosecute those who authorized illegal detention and interrogation practices during the Bush-Cheney years."

You fail to note a major instance of progress:

"Newsweek" is actually calling "torture" what it is:

TORTURE.