Why is the petition limited to accountability for high U.S. Government officials, and not lower officials, those of other governments, non-officials who may have committed crimes, etc.?
The petition focuses on serious violations of the Law by high officials of the U.S. Government because this addresses a current debate in the United States over whether high officials of the Federal Government should be investigated and prosecuted, specifically for crimes they are alleged to have committed as part of the War on Terror. Lower officials and military personnel have already been held to account for crimes committed in the War on Terror, but Cabinet-level and higher officials have not. Q: The petition just says that high U.S. Government officials should be held accountable through investigation and prosecution for any serious violations of the Law, if the facts warrant. Is this really controversial? A: Surprisingly, yes. That is why every name added to the petition is meaningful. The current debate is not so much about whether high Federal officials have violated the Law (although officials such as Richard Cheney and Condoleezza Rice insist that they did not), but rather wh
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