Please do what you can to bring the criminals of the previous administration to justice. You and the Attorney General seem unwilling to do so at this time.
May I take this opportunity to remind you both of your oath of office. You both swore to "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies foreign and domestic." The prior administration executed the greatest attack on the constitution in history. If even half of what is coming out in the news is true so many laws were violated that there should be no problems convicting many people. While economic recovery and health care are important, the rule of law and upholding the constitution are more important to the long term continuation of this grand experiment.
The Attorney General has chosen not to investigate the writers of illegal and unconstitutional policies. The enablers of those policies. Those who executed those policies even though they should have known better. While this is the political expeditious route it is not in the best interest of the country long term. These criminals will be available to the next administration who wishes to go beyond the law and the constitution with the expertise and practice on doing so.
If history has taught us anything it is that we cannot leave these crimes unpunished no matter the short term cost. This is not something to play politics with. If there was collusion by some Democrats they should pay the price too. A great man must step beyond the short expedients of politics and grasp for the core values this country is supposed to uphold. Most of the criminal acts of the Nixon administration went unpunished. Only a few expendable supernumeraries were ever punished. This is where Richard Cheney and his compatriots learned how to manipulate information or sacrifice those loyal to them to avoid detection during the George W. Bush administration. If they escape prosecution in 20-30 years a new administration will be worse. I'm not sure how many more times our democracy can survive these kinds of attacks on the constitution and the rule of law.
I know you are an avid scholar of Lincoln let me end with a quote from him. "... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." You could give this country that new birth without the physical blood of Gettysburg.
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