Bush Impeached?
Assuming no horrendous crises in the next two years, if Bush IS impeached, my guess it will be over something like this:
While there may be a "slam-dunk" case for impeachment based on manipulation of intelligence prior to the Iraq invasion, I doubt impeachment would be brought for that. Impeachment for anything related to 9/11 simply ain't gonna happen in the absence of a miracle.
And this presumes there will be no horrendous crises in the next two years-- something very hard to guarantee at this stage of the grand game being played out by the elites.
Several high-ranking Democratic senators have called for the resignation of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in the wake of revelations in an official audit that the FBI broke and misused laws in the process of obtaining personal information from telephone companies, Internet service providers, banks, and credit bureaus under the terms of the Patriot Act. Prior to Friday's release of the Department of Justice Inspector General's report Gonzales was already under pressure in connection with publicized dismissals of several US Attorneys that may have been politically motivated.
While there may be a "slam-dunk" case for impeachment based on manipulation of intelligence prior to the Iraq invasion, I doubt impeachment would be brought for that. Impeachment for anything related to 9/11 simply ain't gonna happen in the absence of a miracle.
And this presumes there will be no horrendous crises in the next two years-- something very hard to guarantee at this stage of the grand game being played out by the elites.
posted by spooked at 12:32 PM
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impeachment maybe, but even if bush and/or some neocon goons were impeached, do you doubt that someone else equally as evil is lying in wait, ready to pounce on the white house?
Greenwald brought up signing statements/NSLs recently here but i also remember reading Charlie Savage's article on this topic almost a year ago. Savage has written multiple times on bush's use of signing statements.
when bush signed into law the "USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005" he added this signing statement, which reads in part:
The executive branch shall construe the provisions of H.R. 3199 that call for furnishing information to entities outside the executive branch, such as sections 106A and 119, in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch and to withhold information the disclosure of which could impair foreign relations, national security ... [blah blah blah]
the relevant sections of the patriot act are titled:
SEC. 106. ACCESS TO CERTAIN BUSINESS RECORDS UNDER SECTION
215 OF THE USA PATRIOT ACT.
SEC. 119. AUDIT OF USE OF NATIONAL SECURITY LETTERS.
so basically, the law that the FBI is accused of breaking is exactly the law bush claimed he could ignore in a 'signing statement'.
bush and his goons might go down in flames, but they've still nicely laid the legal groundwork for whatever kind of courtroom pickles they intend to devise next. impeachment is a few cards short of a full deck, IMO.
besides, i think most of your legit readers know that we need to throw out the MSM first-- after we turn off our TVs ;-) after all, if those 'professional politicians' aren't given a far-reaching biased platform to speak from (the MSM) then they'd have a much harder time selling lies.
All very true, Shep.
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