"It's important to realize that there are some people making advances in the accountability department. Kevin Zeese is one of those people." - Buzzflash

Gah. Kevin Zeese, one of our well known e-voting activists, has been busy in his "spare time". Recently he got arrested as one of the "Baucus Eight" for speaking up to the Senate Finance Committee as they held "hearings" on health care. Senator Mad Max Baucus didn't like it that Kevin and his colleagues had the nerve to ask that Single Payer have a seat at the table, so Baucus had the "eight" arrested. Well, in Kevin Zeese' spare time, hes been busy - he filed complaints seeking disbarrment of the Bush/Cheney torture attorneys. For that, Buzzflash is honoring him.

Effort to Disbar Bush Torture Lawyers Earns Kevin Zeese BuzzFlash's Wings of Justice Award
Tue, 05/19/2009 - 9:00pm.



WINGS OF JUSTICE

Kevin Zeese

Honestly, we at BuzzFlash had been hoping that we could have been giving this award to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for bringing Bush & Co. to justice for their illegal use of torture. Alas, things have moved slower in this regard than a progressive would hope. But we have to take progress when we can get it, even if it is but a small step forward. It's important to realize that there are some people making advances in the accountability department.

Kevin Zeese is one of those people. Here's video from his press conference announcing his group's efforts to have disbarred the lawyers who wrote the memos containing legal excuses and loopholes for torture:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz9xDA2-k9g...

Christine Bowman writes:

...."Kevin Zeese, did move the accountability agenda forward by filing legal ethics complaints against 12 former Bush administration lawyers associated with providing legal justifications for torture. The disciplinary complaints seeking disbarment were filed with Wallace E. "Gene" Shipp Jr., bar counsel for the District of Columbia.

Rescinding the licenses of the likes of John Yoo and Jay Bybee may only embarrass and force torture-tainted lawyers to earn their money as lecturers or cable news pundits instead of by continuing to practice law, but it is a grass-roots start down the long road towards Bush administration accountability. Citizens have found few paths other than through the ballot box, and even voting for Democrats has brought only mixed results."

Zeese seems to see this as the very least the U.S. legal system can do to right itself. He told The Washington Post's Dana Milbank, "If these guys aren't disbarred, it means that somebody who facilitates war crimes is meeting the legal ethics standards. That's disturbing if true... I think we're setting a pretty low standard."

... more at the link
http://blog.buzzflash.com/honors/169

If only U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder would do as much.