Michael Mukasey refuses to say that waterboarding is torture because Dick Cheney won't let him - otherwise he would have to prosecute Cheney and Bush as war criminals. Mukasey also believes the President can ignore FISA and the Constitution and wiretap American citizens without a warrant, which makes the President a Dictator.
Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) betrayed the Constitution and embraced waterboarding and dictatorship by announcing their support for Mukasey. But Mukasey's nomination can be defeated if 40 Democrats support a filibuster - and it takes just one Senator to start one.
So we're petitioning every Senator who claims to be a progressive leader: Joe Biden at
JoeBiden.com ... Barbara Boxer at
Pac for a Change ... Hillary Clinton at
HillaryClinton.com ... Chris Dodd at
ChrisDodd.com ... Russ Feingold at
the Progressive Patriots Fund ... Ted Kennedy at
the Committee for a Democratic Majority ... John Kerry at
JohnKerry.com ... Barack Obama at
BarackObama.com ... Harry Reid at
Searchlight Leadership Fund ... Bernie Sanders at
Bernie.orghttp://www.democrats.com/filibuster-mukaseyAlso tell your Senators to oppose Mukasey:
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/122Tell your Senators to support Chris Dodd's filibuster of warrantless wiretapping:
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/114