Ari Melber, writing at the Nation spreads the word on how to keep the issue of torture prosecutions front and center with the incoming administration:
The Obama transition team is taking questions again at Change.gov, throwing open the site this week for citizen input. The first run of this experiment was a mixed bag. The platform was open and transparent, but the official answers felt more like old boilerplate than new responses. When the submitted questions parrot toics in the traditional media, of course, the exchange can feel like a dated press conference. But here's a vital question that few reporters have ever presented to Obama:
Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor (ideally Patrick Fitzgerald) to independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping?
That question ranked sixth in voting last time -- out of over 10,000 submissions -- but the transition team only answered the top five questions. Now that Vice President Cheney confessed his support for waterboarding on national television, flouting the rule of law, the issue is even more urgent. Activist Bob Fertik, who has submitted the question twice, explains how you can vote to press this issue on the transition team:
Sign in at http://change.gov/...
Search for "Fitzgerald" [...and] find our question
Look right for the checkbox, mouseover it so it goes from white to dark, then click to cast your vote
As Ari points out, the traditional media would far rather continue baseless speculation on whether Obama had anything to do with Blagojevich trying to sell his seat than investigating the lawlessness of the current administration--even with Dick Cheney's admission that he authorized torture sitting right there in front of them.
Thus, if the issue is going to be kept alive, we're going to have to do it. As Ari says, "it is up to the rest of us to put accountability and the rule of law on the agenda. Change.gov is a fine place to start."
Indeed, citizen input is exactly what Change.gov was built for.