Bush has committed Treason

[Avalux]

By secretly declassifying intelligence information for the purpose of persuading the American public that Iraq was an imminent threat to our national security.

By intentionally not declassifying other intelligence information that would have refuted the released declassified information.

By committing a war of aggression against Iraq based on intelligence information that was not in fact flawed, but picked and chosen to serve his own political purposes.


This man who calls himself President has willfully betrayed the trust of the people of the United States of America. In doing so, he has not only damaged our national security, but undermined the Constitution and reneged on his Presidential Oath of Office.

There is no alternative but to remove him from office by Constitutional authority.

[texastoast]

1. YES he has!

And the wimpy Democrats should strike while the iron is hot, make hay while the sun shines, turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.

What other cliche do they need to hear to get off their cowardly asses and make some rain out of this situation????

[KittyWampus]

13. They already are. Why don't you know that? Cause the Mediawhores

didn't tell you?

[texastoast]

14. Is there a list anywhere of how many more Dems

have signed on to Feingold's call for censure? It was a pretty weak showing at the start. If you know of an update of some folks who have stepped up, I would like to see it.

[goclark]

50. Me too, the sooner they Censure him

the better IMO.

Of course he needs to be IMPEACHED immediately but that is not going to happen with this sorry Congress.

Maybe when they come back from their Spring Break, and are well rested, :sarcasm: they will have listened to enough of the voters to realize they are on the Titanic and they better jump off.

[cantstandbush]

34. For sure he has abused his power as President in order to smear his

critics. That, in and of itself is enough to impeach him.

[0007]

2. Sounds like the authoritative truth to me and nominated to stand

in front.

[immoderate]

3. Let's throw in crimes against humanity.

Killing over a hundred thousand people. Using banned weapons. Spraying the environment with depleted uranium. Undermining environmental protections.

Let's see him "Sittin' in the dock of the Hague" and spending time in Spandau prison.

--IMM

[Avalux]

7. Those are the inevitable consequences of his decisions -

and hopefully in my lifetime, we will see him behind bars in the Hague. :patriot:

[madokie]

10. That desire I hope will carry me many more years, I must see it

[SammyWinstonJack]

51. It's what I want most. nt

[Wickerman]

4. K&R

[APPLE314]

5. I SECOND THAT

Now all we need is a coalition of the willing you take his honor on.

[billybob537]

6. Since when is Robert BLOVAK

the official spokes person for the president's declassification section?
What a crock of shit!

[oldtime dfl_er]

8. RECOMMENDED

simple, basic, factual.

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/1097640

[JohnnyRingo]

9. As is everyone who defends him today

Complicancy to treason is the attitude I have today for anyone who dares cross my path with lame excuses for the actions of this admin.
Maybe I'd better stay home, but I feel loaded for bear and i don't think I can keep my mouth shut.

I think I'll make a new button with the word "impeach" on it.

[MazeRat7]

12. Tee hee.. Boy would like to follow you about today. Got get 'em.

[EVDebs]

40. R's are enablers, like any addict who relys on them. Bush is addicted

to his deceptions. The enablers need to wake up and smell the coffee.

[Frustratedlady]

11. I was just returning home and heard ABC News

mention that Bush "bristled" at the suggestion he would disclose a CIA agent's identity. Oh, my!

[DaveJ]

15. So many lives lost...

And we may never know how many lives were lost or endangered as a result of exposing undercover operations. "They" would have us believe this is all in the best interest of winning in the Middle East, but this is all to benefit *, a few oil companies and defense contractors while the rest of America is left out to dry.

[Trevelyan]

16. K&R Bookmarked

http://www.tomharkin.com/nl/CensurePetition.htm

Dear Senator Harkin:

We, the undersigned, support your principled stand with Senators Russ Feingold and Barbara Boxer in favor of holding President Bush accountable, and we urge you to bring the Resolution of Censure to the floor of the Senate for a vote. The President has brazenly, arrogantly and unapologetically broken the law - the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA), which prohibits warrantless wiretaps of American citizens. Despite getting caught red-handed, he refuses to stop.

Government must protect Americans' security, and that's why the FISA law allows intelligence services to listen to terrorists' conversations legally -by going to the secret espionage and terrorism court to get a warrant AFTER listening.

We are a nation of laws, not of men. No American is above the law. That most certainly includes the President. If Congress fails to hold him to account through censure, then he will believe that he can continue breaking laws with impunity. This is profoundly dangerous to our democracy.

We admire your courage in standing up to President Bush and saying enough! Now, we urge you to take the next step. We - ordinary Americans deeply concerned for the country we love - ask you to work with your colleagues to support and pass the Resolution of Censure in the Senate...

[Catamount]

43. Signed with comments!

Thanks Trevelyan!

[formercia]

17. K&R n/t

[Gregorian]

18. Make it so!

Here, here. We are the people. We are America. We have a Constitution.

[annabanana]

19. but but but He told Helen

that "No President WANTS to go to war.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

32. And that's true, no real president does.

[Just Me]

20. The administration actually acted AGAINST national security interests.

ON PURPOSE!!!

They intentionally defrauded congress and the American people and endangered our own economic and security interests. That is the epitome of treason.

It's insane that any of them are anywhere other than prison.

[autorank]

21. Recommended. This is the key element...the IMPEACHMENT rationale

Of course it's treason. You don't lie your way into a war and drag your country with you without committing treason -- evey if you win!

This is an incendiary term but it's time...

Great post, cogent points, RECOMMENDED...the analysis and the post.

[tjwash]

22. Yes, but can it really be called (puts fingers in quotes marks) "Treason?"

Some media whore/political analyst (same thing these days it seems), here in San Diego did that right after they showed the Cheney footage on the news last night.
:argh:

That's why I really don't watch the news here on TV anymore...:grr:

[EVDebs]

23. Pat Lang has shown that the Chalabi affair as an Iranian spy

was entirely an act of Iranian intelligence: "good work, and I admire good work" said Lang

""Patrick Lang, former director of the intelligence agency's Middle
East branch, said he had been told by colleagues in the intelligence
community that Chalabi's U.S.-funded program to provide information
about weapons of mass destruction and insurgents was effectively an
Iranian intelligence operation. "They knew exactly
what we were up to," he said.

'Sophisticated' operation. He described it as "one of the most sophisticated and successful
intelligence operations in history."

"I'm a spook. I appreciate good work. This was good work," he said.""

http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200405/msg00133.html

The military may want to consider drafting our Commander In Chief simply to put him before a court martial court !

[Avalux]

24. Of course it can.

We have every right to interpret the Constitution as we choose and it's about time we do so. There is evidence that Bush intentionally lied to this country putting his own self-interest above all else; abusing his power (the power invested in him by the people) and endangering the security of this nation.

[tjwash]

33. Oh believe me...

I know. The problem is, we need everyone else to know it. The spin started immediately here. They used the old "some would say..." stuff, and tried to laugh it all off as partisan nonsense.

San Diego and the OC in California are neo-con strongholds. It sucks, and I can't even watch the local news here anymore for fear of breaking something.

[onenote]

25. Its a lot of bad things, but its not treason

No matter how loud and often you say it, it isn't treason. Treason is a very specific, constitutionally defined offense that the courts have consistently held is to be read very narrowly and very strictly.

While using leaks for political purposes and to influence public opinion was outrageous, it was not (a) levying war against the United States, (b) adhering to the enemies of the United States or giving them aid or comfort.

So, rather than toss airballs by chanting "treason" we should be expressing outrage at chimpy's duplicity in decrying leaks while authorizing them and for using leaks for what amounted to political purposes.

onenote

[tjwash]

35. Actually it should fall under...

...adhering to the enemies of the United States or giving them aid or comfort. When you expose your covert agents to the enemy, you are aiding the enemy. That's as cut and dried as it gets.

It is absolutely 100 percent treason.

Now, getting this hand picked group of lackeys in SCOTUS to actually do their jobs and adhere to the constitution, that's a different story...

[onenote]

36. you're assuming that the NIE identified Plame

That's not clear at this point; indeed Fitz has indicated otherwise to the court.

onenote

PS - even if chimpy authorized the outing of Plame, it would be a stretch for it to be considered treason without some actual evidence of actual aid and comfort to the enemy resulting therefrom. That's because the Criminal Code contains several provisions describing various degrees of culpability for causing a covert agent's identity to be revealed, ranging from 10 years to 3 years as the maximum penalty. So merely revealing the identity isn't enough. Justice Marshall, early on in the country's history, specifically noted that the treason provision of the Constitution is to be narrowly applied and indicating some deference to COngress: "

Crimes so atrocious as those which have for their object the subversion by violence of those laws and those institutions which have been ordained in order to secure the peace and happiness of society, are not to escape punishment, because they have not ripened into treason. The wisdom of the legislature is competent to provide for the case; and the framers of our Constitution . . . must have conceived it more safe that punishment in such cases should be ordained by general laws, formed upon deliberation, under the influence of no resentments, and without knowing on whom they were to operate, than that it should be inflicted under the influence of those passions which the occasion seldom fails to excite, and which a flexible definition of the crime, or a construction which would render it flexible, might bring into operation."

[Swamp Rat]

26. Treason AND Crimes Against Humanity!!!

To the HAGUE!!!

[DoYouEverWonder]

29. I hear Charles Taylor

is looking for a roommate.

[mitchum]

27. Like grandfather, like son

[Cobalt Violet]

28. Kick

:kick:

[Catherine Vincent]

30. I shall now call him President Treasonous Bush!

[ClayZ]

31. K and R

:kick:

[WiseButAngrySara]

37. Simple, cogently stated, and all true. K & R! ....n/t

[whopis01]

38. kick n/t

[EVDebs]

39. Also violates the AUMF which embeds the WarPowersAct of '73

Since the WPAof'73 requires truthful situations and circumstances not to mention clarity when Congress commits troops for military force.

Joint Resolution for Iraq War AUMF Oct 2002
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021002-2.html

""Section 3(c) WAR POWERS RESOLUTION REQUIREMENTS. --

(1) SPECIFIC STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION. -- Consistent with section 8(a)(1) of the War Powers Resolution, the Congress declares that this section is intended to constitute specific statutory authorization within the meaning of section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution.

(2) APPLICABILITY OF OTHER REQUIREMENTS. -- Nothing in this resolution supersedes any requirement of the War Powers Resolution.""


The War Powers Act of 1973
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/warpow.html

requires no 'pretexts' or falsified situations or conditions. Clarity is required, not equivocations.


Fabrications and whims...just don't cut it legally, unless you want Roberts and Alito to produce on whopper of a decision that won't pass the laugh test.

[Beelzebud]

41. Someone needs to alert the media. I dont' think they've caught on yet.

[FogerRox]

42. DUDE . . . . KNR

[fooj]

44. You bet he has.

Peace.

[Kurovski]

45. K&R

Yep, sure look that way.

[Senator]

46. The treason was literally TERRORISM (let's stop euphemizing)

It was a bomb threat. Pure and simple.

They Terrorized the American People with threats of "mushroom clouds."

It wasn't "persuading," or "misleading," or "exaggerating," or "cherry-picking," or anything else the DC/Euphemedia Analstocracy has to tell themselves to avoid the elephant in the Roosevelt Room.

This never-legitimate cabal purposely terrorized the nation for power, (sadistic and masturbatory) fun, and profit.

If enough people start saying so, they'll be out before the midterms. (Yes, really)

--
www.january6th.org

[magellan]

47. OMG, you're absolutely right!

They Terrorized the American People with threats of "mushroom clouds."

I never looked at it that way before. Forest for the trees, I guess. Or maybe that part of me that still can't believe our own government would behave so treasonously. I called it manipulation in the past, lumped it in with BushCo's successive fear campaigns, but you hit the nail on the head. It was an act of terrorism perpetrated by BushCo against the American people...and that's what I'm calling it from now on.

Thank you.

[cpousnret]

48. no doubt

this has been a fiasco since the hijacking of the presidency in 2000.his m.o. has been,screw as much up as he can in 8years,you he`s fraught with power,obsessed with power,up to this point he has been a supreme failure,now is given the chance to complete that mission

[Senator]

49. Yes, Stolen Election 2000 was the watershed event

That's when the American People were "taken out of the loop," and consequently became "fair game" because we were no longer the last, most just, court of public opinion. The force that could end apartheid and forge peace in the Balkans and N. Ireland.

In fact, the probability of the election theft as a direct cause of 9-11 is not easily dismissible.

One need only note that (actually elected) President Clinton was able to successfully protect us from many attacks, including the Millenium attempts. In that case we were tipped off by Jordanian intelligence.

You have to wonder how anxious other nations were to lend a hand to an election thief, with disdain for the rest of the world, including signed treaties, and such a cozy relationship with the belligerent Ariel Sharon, the Saudi Royals, and the Pakistani strongman.

Actions have consequences.

--

[NJmaverick]

52. Impeach and put him in jail

When the world sees whe do believe in right and justice, some of our tattered image would be repaired.