Elizabeth de la Vega, Bringing Bush to Court

Elizabeth is doing the work for some other prosecutor in a not too distant time.

These people must not be allowed to walk free. Oh no, not after what they have done.

Either they will be prosecuted, or hunted down like beasts in the woods by the people. If I were them, I would take my chances with American jurisprudence, even after they have tried to destroy it.


TomDispatch - Tomgram: Elizabeth de la Vega, Bringing Bush to Court:

Elizabeth de la Vega, appearing on behalf of the United States. That is a phrase I've uttered hundreds of times in twenty years as a federal prosecutor. I retired two years ago. So, obviously, I do not now speak for any U.S. Attorney's Office, nor do I represent the federal government. This should be apparent from the fact that I am proposing a hypothetical indictment of the President and his senior advisers -- not a smart move for any federal employee who wishes to remain employed. Lest anyone miss the import of this paragraph, let me emphasize that it is a DISCLAIMER: I am writing as a private citizen.

Obviously, as a private citizen, I cannot simply draft and file an indictment. Nor can I convene a grand jury. Instead, in the following pages I intend to present a hypothetical indictment to a hypothetical grand jury. The defendants are President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. The crime is tricking the nation into war--in legal terms, conspiracy to defraud the United States. And all of you are invited to join the grand jury.