The Obama transition team set up the Change.gov website as a means of communicating presidential transition news. In December they added an "Open for Questions" section and have received more than 20,000 questions for the President-elect. Visitors to the website are able to vote on the questions they think most important and one question has, with over 22,000 votes, been the overwhelmingly most popular:
“Will
you appoint a Special Prosecutor — ideally Patrick Fitzgerald — to
independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush
Administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping,”
Good question. And one the media has largely ignored. I have this sense some folks would be truly surprised how deep the resentment runs toward the excesses of the Bush Administration - from illegal surveillance, to rendition and torture, to the expansion of the unitary presidency, to the deception leading up to the war in Iraq, and to the Administration's casting a blind eye toward the middle class, environmental protectiions, and health care reform.
In the real world, folks are accountable for their actions. Even when it's politcally uncomfortable.
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