Thank you Representative Zoe Lofgren

For attempting to hold the Bush administration accountable:

The Bush administration has taken historically unprecedented steps in its assertions of executive privilege and authority. For instance, the Vice President has fought over relatively modest requests to disclose information such as with whom he consulted when setting the Administration's energy policy. The Vice President's office, during a confrontation with the National Archives over executive branch records, even declared itself an entity outside of the executive branch with enhanced powers to resist the public's right to know about its actions.

These assertions of executive privilege have wide-ranging implications for both Congress' day-to-day oversight of the Bush administration and for efforts to hold the President and Vice President accountable.

That is why I introduced the Executive Branch Prosecutions Act. This legislation would suspend the statute of limitations for crimes committed while the president and vice president hold office. Federal law currently suspends the statute of limitations for crimes related to national security. That suspension should extend to any crime committed by the President or Vice President while in office.

It won't go anywhere but it doesn't matter. We need to keep on chipping away at the facade of this administration with such acts; soon there will be cracks enough to expose all the wrong doing that has taken place for the last two terms.

Then we need to hold people accountable. We need trials and jail time. We need to see cause and effect. We need to see justice.