National Disbar Torture Lawyers Coalition to File Formal Disciplinary Complaints...

National Disbar Torture Lawyers Coalition to File Formal Disciplinary
Complaints and Call for Dismissal of 'Torture Architect' and Current Top CIA
Lawyer, John Rizzo, and Other Current and Former CIA Lawyers

WASHINGTON, June 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Monday, June 29th at 9:30AM
in the Murrow Room of the National Press Club, three prominent D.C. lawyers,
including a former Associate Deputy Attorney General under President Reagan,
will discuss the legal case against the lawyer architects of a program of
torture and cruel and inhumane treatment of detainees held in the custody of
the U.S. Government.

The sponsoring coalition, Velvet Revolution, last month called for the
disbarment of over a dozen lawyers, filing formal complaints in five states as
part of a national campaign at www.disbartorturelawyers.com.

"On Monday we'll call for dismissal of two torture architects still working in
the Obama administration," says board member Kevin Zeese, "and we will be
calling for the President to keep his campaign commitment to accountability
and transparency. Documents and photographs related to the torture program
should be de-classified, lawyers who implemented the program still working in
government should be dismissed, and a Special Prosecutor should be appointed.
The President must uphold the rule of law and State disciplinary committees
and courts should disbar these torture lawyers."

As part of a growing international movement demanding accountability for an
unlawful program of "enhanced interrogation," the coalition will be announcing
the filing of three additional complaints against current and former CIA
lawyers. Two of the lawyers continue to work within the intelligence community
under President Obama; John Rizzo is acting General Counsel of the Central
Intelligence Agency and Jonathan Fredman is Counsel in the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence.

"These lawyers have no business practicing law, especially under salary in the
Federal Government given their involvement in furthering the torture of
detainees," insists Zeese.

Bruce Fein, a former Reagan administration lawyer, and Shahid Buttar, Director
of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, will join Zeese. They will outline
applicable U.S. and international law, and mounting evidence of an unlawful
conspiracy to commit torture and other inhumane treatment of detainees held by
U.S. authorities in detention facilities.

The three additional complaints will be filed next week with the Appellate
Division of State Supreme Court in New York State and with the District of
Columbia Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C.

SOURCE VelvetRevolution.us

Ilene Proctor PR, +1-310-858-6643, for VelvetRevolution.us or Kevin Zeese of
VelvetRevolution.us, +1-301-996-6582, kzeese@earthlink.net