Senate Hearings on Bush, Now (By CARL BERNSTEIN)

[Ernesto]

In this VF.com exclusive, a Watergate veteran and Vanity Fair contributor calls for bipartisan hearings investigating the Bush presidency. Should Republicans on the Hill take the high road and save themselves come November?


http://www.vanityfair.com/features/general/articles/060417fege08

[YDogg]

1. Not bloody likely.

[jaxx]

2. That's one of the best articles I've read. thanks!

[KoKo]

3. This should be on DU's Front Page.... Berstein lays it all out....every

reason for Congress to act immediately. It's an incredible read.

Bernstein must have done all the work breaking Watergate and Woodward was the slacker. You'd never see anything like this written by Woodward.

[Mabus]

14. Thanks for kicking

Just heard about the article on Countdown. I knew it had to already be posted to DU and here it is.

Damn taxes kept me busy yesterday.

[KoKo]

4. Kick.....

[sabra]

5. Carl Bernstein calls for probe of Bush

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12361384/

Carl Bernstein calls for probe of Bush
Journalist urges Watergate-style investigation in Senate

LOS ANGELES - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl Bernstein, who with Bob Woodward helped expose President Nixon's role in the Watergate scandal, Monday called for the U.S. Senate to open a full-scale probe of President Bush's conduct in office.

Writing in the online edition of Vanity Fair magazine, Bernstein said that during Watergate "there was understandable reluctance in the Congress to begin a serious investigation of the Nixon presidency. Then there came a time when it was unavoidable. That time in the Bush presidency has arrived."

He said the investigation should concentrate on the run-up to war in Iraq, the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity to the press and the administration's response to Hurricane Katrina.

Bernstein said that any Senate investigation must not be a fishing expedition but try to determine whether "lying, disinformation, misinformation and manipulation of information have been a basic matter of policy" in the Bush administration.

[mod mom]

6. Let's go a little further, Carl, let's delve into 9/11. nt

[goforit]

10. Bada bing!!!

This is truely the most important one of all.

How the President attacked his own country ...intentionally!

[wordpix]

12. yes, what about all those secrets re: Atta's girlfriend, the Fla. flight

schools taken over by drug smugglers and so on? Let's open it up!

[lagavulin]

13. Better yet, Richard Heinberg's book is out soon calling for impeachment...

...based on the argument that this administration has known about Peak Oil for years and has determined to simply bury the issue, to exacerbate the situation, and then let us all hang.

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/033006Heinberg.shtml">The Case for Impeachment of Bush and Cheney

(Edited for linkerrific goodness)

[Julius Civitatus]

7. Amazing the differences between Bernstein & Woodward

Bernstein has been an impartial witness to this administration, while Woodward is still well lodged up Chimpy's rectum. So much so, that he is now part of the Plame leak investigation.

[Auntie Bush]

9. Kick and three cheers for Bernstein! I hope someone will

finally listen and take some action. Maybe he will wake up Roberts!

[Ilsa]

8. I'd like for Bush* to get probed the way prisoners at Abu Ghraib and

GITMO get probed. Cheney too. And don't forget Rumsferatu.

[seemslikeadream]

11. i and i Carl

Obediah Obediah, Jah Jah sent us here to catch vampire…
Obediah Obediah, Jah Jah sent us here to catch vampire…
We have the chalice to light up Jah fire!
When i and i catch them vampire
i and i have to set them on fire

[jbfam4]

17. CARL BERNSTEIN talks to OLBERMANN: transcript

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12388563/

[rodeodance]

18. thanks, i missed that show. but heard from others that Carl did well.

[yurbud]

15. GOP pols are incapable, for same reason many Dems are

Certain corporate business interests bought and paid for Bush, and most if not all the Republicans and a substantial share of the Democrats. As bad as the poll numbers get, as long as those business interests are happy, their servants in Congress will remain silent.

[Wilms]

16. K&R n/t