George W. Bush as the New Richard M. Nixon

[IndianaGreen]

This is the perfect time to repost John Dean's December article about Bush's impeachable offenses!

Published on Friday, December 30, 2005 by FindLaw

George W. Bush as the New Richard M. Nixon: Both Wiretapped Illegally, and Impeachably

Both Claimed That a President May Violate Congress' Laws to Protect National Security

by John W. Dean

On Friday, December 16, the New York Times published a major scoop by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau: They reported that Bush authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on Americans without warrants, ignoring the procedures of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

It was a long story loaded with astonishing information of lawbreaking at the White House. It reported that sometime in 2002, Bush issued an executive order authorizing NSA to track and intercept international telephone and/or email exchanges coming into, or out of, the U.S. - when one party was believed to have direct or indirect ties with al Qaeda.

Initially, Bush and the White House stonewalled, neither confirming nor denying the president had ignored the law. Bush refused to discuss it in his interview with Jim Lehrer.

Then, on Saturday, December 17, in his radio broadcast, Bush admitted that the New York Times was correct - and thus conceded he had committed an impeachable offense.

There can be no serious question that warrantless wiretapping, in violation of the law, is impeachable. After all, Nixon was charged in Article II of his bill of impeachment with illegal wiretapping for what he, too, claimed were national security reasons.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1230-39.htm

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1. nixon looks like a saint compared to shrub

and that's sayin' something pretty damn ugly about shrub.

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2. Kick n Rec!

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[rwenos]

3. One Big Difference --

Nixon could finally be scared into resigning by threatening to pull his pension. Nixon, never a wealthy man, descended from hard-scrabble lemon farmers and himself a brilliant but hard-scrabble lawyer from Orange County, never had a pot to piss in beyond his government pension.

Junior has Daddy's and Grandpappy's money. He doesn't have to worry a crap about anything.

That makes Junior WAY more dangerous than Milhous.