Take Action: Ask President-elect Obama to Ban Torture and Close the School of the Americas
Yesterday the US Senate released a report confirming that Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior US officials are responsible for authorizing torture at Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo Bay. Similarly, the torture manuals used at the School of the Americas/WHINSEC – made public in 1996 – were also authorized by the highest levels of the Pentagon in the early 1980s. Read the Reuters article here: www.soaw.org/rumsfeld

TAKE ACTION: Please Call the Obama transition team and share the below message at 202-540-3000 – after instructions, press “2” to speak with the transition team.

“President- elect Obama, as a member of the School of the Americas Watch – I ask that after you are inaugurated President that you issue executive orders to ban torture – no exceptions, close the School of the Americas/WHINSEC and close Guantanamo Bay.”

Please also take a moment to Contact President-elect Obama via his website to paste in the above message at: http://change.gov/page/content/contact

I think Bush himself authorized this too. Didn’t he torture frogs as a young lad?