Mar. 8 Daily Impeachment News: post high crimes and misdemeanor news here

[L. Coyote]

Once again, trying the Daily Impeachment News thread idea to see if there is interest. There are getting to be too many articles and this may assist in organizing the morass of articles on corruptions, high crimes, felonies, and misdemeanors. Add articles, etc.
=========

March 7, 2007 at 07:47:02
Failure to impeach now will irreparably damage the Republic
by Jay Esbe
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_jay_esbe_070306_failure_to_impeach_n.htm

"The Democrats were returned to power by the American people because the people demanded the ongoing criminal conduct of this administration be stopped, and that it’s resultant baseless and illegal war on Iraq be ended. But Democrats running for office engaged in a game of political brinkmanship directed from the highest levels of the Democratic Party, for perceived political gains; “Impeachment is off the table” stated Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

The political game which has been engaged in was shrewdly designed to enable Democrats to evade their constitutional responsibilities based on a calculation that even were they to state their opposition to impeachment, it would improve their election chances. It was furthermore done so that any possible damage caused to their election chances by their refusal, would not be enough to keep the people from choosing the only alternative they had to the GOP rubber stamp and it’s accompanying abuse of power by the executive branch. It was cynical in the extreme, and the game continues to this day for the –perceived- longer range political benefit the DLC believes it can glean from allowing the Bush crime junket to continue two more years, hopefully –to them- further imploding the political viability of the GOP. It must end now: No one has the right to remove any constitutional legal process from the intrinsic right of the American people to maintain a society of laws. ..."

[porphyrian]

1. I'll kick that. - n/t

[waiting for hope]

2. Scoot to the GP with ya!

[demnan]

3. March 9 Impeachment Forum - Washington, D.C.

If you're in the D.C. area, you might want to attend this, I'll go and I'll find your thread and post about it on Saturday:

Washington Peace Center Hosts:

Investigations to Impeachment: A Panel Discussion

Contact: Pete Perry, 202-234-2000

“Impeachment is coming this spring, and among the chief players will be citizens of the United States.”
David Swanson

WASHINGTON – Although leading Democrats on Capitol Hill are repeating a mantra of “Impeachment is off the table,” the Washington Peace Center, a 44-year-old peace and justice organization insists the topic deserves open and fair discussion.

Join panelists Ray McGovern, founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and 27 year veteran CIA analyst; David Swanson, co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org and former staffer for Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign; Dave Lindorff, author of "The Case for Impeachment," and John Judge, former staffer of Rep. Cynthia McKinney who helped draft articles of impeachment legislation, in a discussion of the case against President George W. Bush

“Impeachment resolutions are making their way through state legislatures. Congressmen Kucinich and Conyers have said they will impeach if Bush and Cheney attack Iran,” said David Swanson. “Impeachment is coming this spring, and among the chief players will be citizens of the United States.”

Friday, March 9th
6:30 p.m
St. Stephen Episcopal Church
16th and Newton Streets, N.W.

The event is open to the public, but a suggested $5 donation will be requested at the door.

Pete Perry will moderate the discussion.

Washington Peace Center
P.O. Box 50032
Washington DC 20091-0032
[e-mail] / 202-234-2000
http://washingtonpeacecenter.org






###


You are subscribed to the Democrats.com Local Announcement List.

To unsubscribe click here:
http://democrats.com/unsub.cfm?email=[e-mail]&fieldname=L4

To subscribe and discuss progressive politics, create a free account:

http://www.democrats.com/user

[Maraya1969]

9. Talk about a flip flopper! Conyers now says he will impeach IF BUSH attacks Iraq???

:wtf: I thought Conyers was our hero because he said he would impeach for the multitude of crimes committed already by this despicable
group of thugs in the White House???

He must be held accountable. I'd like to see a compilation of video statements he made in the past about impeachment. Maybe that would get him moving without waiting until bush starts another frigging war!!!!!

[L. Coyote]

12. As evidence mounts. "Pelosi ordered impeachment "off the table" a year ago...."

Swanson reminds us that times and circumstances change. For one thing, EVIDENCE MOUNTS ....

Tomgram: David Swanson, Will Iraq Become the Democrats' War?
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=171335

Nothing reminds us more of how much the American constitutional system has been transformed, of just how extreme the "imperial presidency" has become, than Congress's generally woeful record in the second half of the last century and in the first years of this one to exert any significant control over or brakes on White House wars abroad. .....

<big snip>

It seems everyone's getting into the act, except Congress. But Congress could do so. The evidence uncovered by the Libby trial did not exist when Pelosi ordered impeachment "off the table" a year ago. Among the public, there is a lot of fear that impeaching Bush (and removing him from office) would give us a President Cheney. By impeaching the incredibly unpopular Cheney first, Congress would allay these fears. Impeaching Cheney might actually unite the mood of the public with that of Congress more easily than the impeachment of George W. Bush -- under the motto: Business Before Pleasure -- Impeach Cheney First!

In the meantime, the Democrats' strategy of letting the war continue, not thoroughly investigating the fraud that launched it, and not holding the war-makers accountable may prove not to be the electoral winner that Party figures like Emanuel expect. It might even prove a political equalizer and so a loser in 2008 or beyond. Every day that the Democrats don't move to end the war in Iraq is another day in which that war, stretching ever on, can become the Democrats' war.

[L. Coyote]

13. Open thread. Everyone contribute, including starting the thread each day.

You wrote: "I'll find your thread and post about it on Saturday"

Do not hesitate to start the thread. I'll be in the field a lot in the next months. I want to see this happen, but it will depend on the Community, not just me, if it is to be a daily thread.

SO, any day it is not there yet, add to the last one or start a new one. This is the busiest appropriate forum, and the thread will need particpants to not get buried.

There are just too many impeachment articles everyday now.
This thread is really necessary and will help everyone keep up with the fast breaking events.

BE Woodward and Bernstein!

[demnan]

4. If you live in Virginia's 11th Congressional District

and would like to join our cdic group, please pm me.

[L. Coyote]

5. VERMONT: Impeachment tally: 36 towns support petition

Impeachment tally: 36 towns support petition
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070307/NEWS/70307012/-1/NEWS05

Published: Wednesday, March 7, 2007
The lead organizer of the Town Meeting Day petition drive calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday enough towns had voted for the measure to call the effort a success.

Based on an unofficial statewide tally by the petition organizers, 36 towns voted in favor of the non-binding impeachment measure, 11 tabled it and one town voted against impeachment.

On a companion resolution seeking the immediate withdrawal of all American troops in Iraq, 21 towns voted yes, one voted no and one tabled the measure.

........

[Maraya1969]

6. Here is my favorite part.

"The leadership of the Democratic party must be made to know that their craven and fundamentally corrupt current political calculation can and will be made to backfire if they do not change course now. I for one, will hold my representatives accountable for what’s now clearly amounting to their aiding and abetting an ongoing criminal conspiracy; Jay Inslee and Patty Murray: You’d better stop impeding the lawful removal of this administration now or be ready to clean out your offices in 2008. I will not support you under any circumstances if this continues: I will consider it criminal. To the reader, You should to."

[L. Coyote]

7. Editorial - Impeach Bush? Not from Olympia

Thursday, March 8, 2007 - Page updated at 02:00 AM
Editorial - Impeach Bush? Not from Olympia
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2003606307_impeached08.html

Of all the off-base ideas floating around Olympia these days, a pair of resolutions favoring impeachment of President Bush and urging the U.S. to get out of Iraq stand out for special mention.

One can be resoundingly opposed to many Bush policies and very eager for the U.S. to begin getting out of Iraq — as this editorial page is — and still realize that the Legislature is the wrong forum for expressing these sentiments. The state Senate held a hearing last week on two proposals: one by state Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, to block troop increases in Iraq; the other by state Sen. Eric Oemig, D-Kirkland, to call on Congress to investigate and consider impeachment of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

.......more

[L. Coyote]

8. Reasons for impeachment = "... returning the troops..."

"Reasons for impeachment"
03/06/2007
http://www.timesonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18040478&BRD=2305&PAG=461&dept_id=478566&rfi=6

An equally valid and perhaps even superior way to start returning the troops to their homes is impeachment.

If we define victory as a just peace, only a just war can deliver a true victory. The military cannot properly function with a leader who many believe has committed treasonous acts.

.... more

[L. Coyote]

10. Editorial Letter: Offenses warrant impeachment

Offenses warrant impeachment
March 6, 2007
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/OPINION02/703060302/-1/HSSPORTS

Your argument against impeaching President Bush ("Voice of protest," Feb. 28) is the best I've read, and yet it just doesn't sit right.

The "high crimes and misdemeanors" that you say Bush has committed — lying, mismanagement of the war, and "the dangerous expansion of executive power" — are not the full story.

As you imply, the first two are comparatively "low" crimes. We know that nearly all politicians lie, and most politicians and politically appointed bureaucrats are bad managers.

The third charge may be more properly called "usurpation" which is "to seize and hold (the power or rights of another, for example) by force or without legal authority," and that is a high crime worthy of impeachment, as are other acts committed by the president: Spying on Americans without court-approved warrants, kidnapping, torturing, and illegally, and indefinitely detaining of hundreds, if not thousands of alleged terrorists, some of them American citizens, who are not even permitted to know what the evidence against them is.

.....more

[L. Coyote]

11. OPINION: Trampling On The Grassroots

Trampling On The Grassroots
Dave Lindorff - March 07, 2007
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/03/07/trampling_on_the_grassroots.php

In the state of Washington, it is the people versus Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party leadership.

At issue is a bill, S8016, submitted in the state’s senate by freshman state Senator Eric Oemig, which would call on the U.S. Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors against the Constitution and the people of the United States and of the state of Washington.

The measure, which would take the form of a joint resolution by the two houses of the Washington state legislature, accords with the instructions laid out by Founder Thomas Jefferson, who, in his Manual of the Rules of the House of Representatives laid out state joint resolutions as an alternative route for initiating presidential impeachment proceedings in the House, in addition to the more usual route of a member submitting a bill of impeachment.

Jefferson’s prescient thinking was that if Congress, by reason of political cowardice or inattention, ever proved unwilling or unable to initiate impeachment when it was called for, state legislators, far from Capitol Hill and closer to the people, could do it for them.

.....more

(typo corrected)

[L. Coyote]

14. “Scooter” Libby ... "has been a very bad Neocon!"

Scripted Libby Trial Ends on Cue: What Can Happen Next?
William Hughes - 03/07/07
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/03/07/scripted_libby_trial_ends_on_cue_what_ca

“Time’s glory is to...unmask falsehood and bring truth to light.” - William Shakespeare

Irving “Scooter” Libby, V.P. Dick Cheney’s ex-chief of staff, has been a very bad Neocon! .... Libby can now play out his assigned role of “sacrificial lamb.” Like another Neocon before him, Elliott Abrams, of Contragate infamy, a presidential pardon will soon be coming his way. Meanwhile, Libby’s cohorts in the White House, the State Department, etc., who could have possibly been indicted as coconspirators with him, are now breathing easier. Prosecutor Fitzgerald, who has failed the Republic, intends to close his file.

...more

[L. Coyote]

15. Impeachment supporters "mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore"

Google News search reveals the number of outlets carrying stories.
This one:... "all 124 news articles"
I notice these numbers have climbed dramatically.

THE STORY:

CNN Highlights Vermont's 'Impeach Bush' Movement That's 'Spreading Like Wildfire'
Posted by Brad Wilmouth on March 7, 2007 - 22:39.
http://newsbusters.org/node/11266

On Wednesday afternoon's The Situation Room, CNN correspondent Carol Costello filed a story about Vermont residents who have successfully voted on resolutions calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Costello described the impeachment supporters as "mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore" as she remarked that "even if this effort doesn't pay off, sure feels good."

........

[L. Coyote]

16. 5 a.m. today, 14 of the top 15 items on Reddit: Impeach Bush and Cheney

Mob rule overruns Reddit
By Paul McNamara on Thu, 03/08/2007 - 6:24am
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/12240

The problem with "meritocracy" social-bookmarking sites such as Reddit is that sometimes the wisdom of crowds turns into an unruly mob.

As of 5 a.m. this morning, 14 of the top 15 items on Reddit - as voted by the Reddit community - involved the various calls to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Granted, a few are complaining about the overkill, but those voices of reason have failed to stem the tide. (Three things about such an impeachment, by the way: It simply isn't going to happen, it would be richly deserved, now let's move on.)

......more

[L. Coyote]

17. CHITCHAT: "The founders wanted impeachment in the hands of the people,"

Thursday, March 8, 2007 - Post a Comment
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070308/NEWS/70308004&theme=CHITCHAT

Outta here!

The number is 37 and counting, said Dan DeWalt, a woodworker and musician who lives in Newfane.

DeWalt, 50, was talking Wednesday about the tally of Vermont towns that voted at Town Meeting to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Across the state, at forums where talk is typically of fence viewers and fire
engines, the hot topic on a cold day was firing the president.

"Now that this thing has hit, in all these towns, the press has gone, ‘I guess this might involve more than one maniac guy running around to 37 Town Meetings around the state,’ ‘’ said DeWalt, a selectman and grassroots organizer of the
impeachment campaign. He's lived in southern Vermont for about 30 years.

"The founders wanted impeachment in the hands of the people," DeWalt said. "They knew there might come a time when the executive branch, the Congress, and even the press, fail us. And that's the circumstance we find ourselves in today."

.... more good reading by Sally Pollak at burlingtonfreepress

[L. Coyote]

18. PARTICIPATE For this idea, Daily Impeachment News, to succeed.

I'm offline to work on other stuff.

For this idea, Daily Impeachment News, to succeed, it will have to be a Community Project, so PARTICIPATE.

Add articles.

Kick = only if really needed.

AND, start the new thread in the morning with an article if it's not there yet!!!!

[Kurovski]

19. K&R(nt)

[L. Coyote]

20. EDITORIAL: Liars, liars - People's Weekly World

EDITORIAL: Liars, liars - People's Weekly World - 12 minutes ago
http://www.pww.org/index.php/article/articleview/10694/1/362

Congress should launch a full investigation of Vice President Dick Cheney’s role in leaking the name of an undercover CIA officer, Valerie Plame Wilson, to the media in violation of federal law.

That conclusion follows from the guilty verdict rendered March 6 against Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, on four counts of perjury and obstruction of justice in the Wilson affair.

The trial laid bare Cheney’s ringleader role in the “outing” of Wilson after her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson, exposed a lie in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union speech, a lie that helped sell the Iraq war.

......

It’s an indication of the disquiet across our country over this administration’s trampling on the rule of law. Congress needs to pursue this trail of criminality to wherever the buck stops.

[L. Coyote]

21. "The lunatic left gets what it wants in Vt." (sic)

The lunatic left gets what it wants in Vt.
Thursday, 08 March 2007
St. Albans Messenger
http://www.samessenger.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=598&Itemid=46
(Fill in the form ..to send us your comments. We MUST have valid contact information to publish comments....)

"On Friday, March 2nd, I traveled to Montpelier with Paul Beaudry, local radio talk show host to protest Cindy Sheehan, the far left’s latest poster child in the cultural wars, coming to speak at the statehouse in support of a non-binding resolution to impeach President Bush and pull our troops out of Iraq. Sheehan’s bus was already there when we arrived. My first thought was, “Where’s the money coming from to finance Sheehan and her entourage?”...."

Shoot the messenger any way you can, I guess! Look, they are riding a bus. So, is big trouble a brewing if a Dem has a bank balance now, and can afford to ride a bus?

[L. Coyote]

22. Local votes may spur movement on impeachment

Local votes may spur movement on impeachment
March 8, 2007 - By Daniel Barlow Vermont Press Bureau
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070308/NEWS02/703080354/1003/NEWS02

MONTPELIER — Resolutions calling for President Bush's impeachment passed in at least 38 towns during town meeting this week, but it is not clear if that effort will help push a similar bill along in the Legislature.

State lawmakers introduced a House bill last month calling on the U.S. Congress to begin impeachment hearings against Bush for acting in a "manner contrary to his trust as president and subversive of constitutional government."

But the bill has languished in the House Judiciary Committee since its introduction ........

[L. Coyote]

23. LATimes: Conservatives see a scapegoat in Libby

Conservatives see a scapegoat in Libby
He's been sacrificed to a politicized prosecution, they say. A former Clinton aide recalls the impeachment and sees hypocrisy.
By David G. Savage, Times Staff Writer - March 8, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-libby8mar08,1,6629830.story?coll=la-news-politics-national&track=crosspromo

WASHINGTON — The perjury conviction of former senior White House advisor I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was condemned as a "travesty" and a "politicized prosecution" by much of the conservative media Wednesday.

As the critics on the right saw it, an overzealous prosecutor, unable to find evidence of a real crime, turned what a Wall Street Journal editorial called a "trivial matter" into a high-profile criminal case. The Journal editorial accused Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald of "criminalizing political differences. For that, in essence, is what this case is really all about."

.....

Amid this fervor, some veterans of an earlier political drama — President Clinton's impeachment in the late 1990s — were amused by their political opponents' new views of the significance of perjury and obstruction of justice.

"They thought it was OK for prosecutors to pursue the president for lying about sex, and now they think it's unfair to prosecute someone in the White House for lying to a grand jury about outing a CIA agent," Lanny J. Davis, Clinton's special counsel during that time, said Wednesday. "This is not just hypocritical. It is comical."

..... more

[L. Coyote]

24. HuffingtonPost.com: Vermont's Impeachment Insurrection

Dan DeWalt
03.08.2007
Vermont's Impeachment Insurrection (34 comments )
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-dewalt/vermonts-impeachment-ins_b_42924.html

Yesterday the citizens of Vermont launched an impeachment insurrection. 40 Vermont towns have now called on Congress to impeach the President and Vice-President. ...

Many towns voiced near unanimous assent in their impeachment votes.

In Bennington, an impeachment resolution was introduced by a Democrat, and seconded by a Republican.

Not everyone had success. Moderators at several meetings managed to prevent debate by ruling the resolutions out of order, citing Robert's Rules or declaring the subject out of bounds.

In the Vermont State House, an impeachment resolution, with 22 co-sponsors, is languishing in the Judiciary committee because the Speaker, Gaye Symington, does not want to act on it.

Vermonters are taking their frustration and anger at these tactics, and channeling them into a multipronged campaign to force impeachment onto the table in Montpelier and in Washington D.C.

We are starting a "lunch with a representative" citizens' lobbying effort, coming directly to the statehouse and buttonholing representatives to advocate for impeachment.

....more

[L. Coyote]

25. "... enough to impel the US Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney..."

March 8, 2007
The Iraq That George Built
Citizens For Legitimate Government
http://uruknet.info/?p=m31208&s1=h1


Bush and Cheney have more than decimated Iraq. That is, in a country of 26 million people, Bush and Cheney have killed directly, caused the deaths indirectly, or caused the evacuation, of over four million people. That is, over 15% of the population ......

Further, those fleeing Iraq are .... , leaving only the most rabid lunatics and their helpless victims behind. The country has actually lost its mind.

This is the Iraq that George built. This is the democracy that the invasion has produced. This result alone should be enough to impel the US Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney, try them for treason and war crimes, and take over the executive office until the next "election." The world needs to be made safe from them........

....more

[L. Coyote]

26. Cindy Sheehan Opinion: : "I want Bloody George and Doomsday Dick to be impeached...."

Opinion by Cindy Sheehan - Thursday 08 March 2007
Vermont: Land of Hope
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030807O.shtml


My recent trip to Turkey opened my eyes further to anti-American hatred. As more and more people in the occupied countries of Afghanistan and Iraq are being killed by American troops or by violence that didn't exist before America entered their countries, the intensity of the hostility is escalating along with the escalating violence. At a "peace" conference that I attended in Istanbul I was appalled when attendee after attendee rose up from the audience to commend my fellow panelist, an Iraqi scientist, on the insurgency in Iraq that was giving the world "hope" by staving off the self-entitled "mightiest military in history." I was as appalled because a violent insurgency was applauded as I am appalled that a violent regime in DC is still in power to continue devastating the world which encourages people to place their hope in the Iraqi resistance.

I want to live in a country that gives hope to the world. I want to live in a country that decreases world instability instead of fomenting and celebrating it. I want to live in a country that listens to its citizens and not the lobbyists of the war profiteers. I want to live in a country that doesn't use its precious sons and daughters to kill other people's precious sons and daughters. I want to live in the USA, and that's why I want Bloody George and Doomsday Dick to be impeached....

MUCH MORE

[L. Coyote]

27. afterdowningstreet.org: Take Action on Impeachment in Washington State

Take Action on Impeachment in Washington State
Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2007-03-08 17:05. Activism | Impeachment
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/19386

1. an update on SJM8016
2. how you can take a stand for Democracy
3. a form letter to the Dem leadership
4. contact info for the Dem leadership

1) Update March 6:

The Bill for investigation to impeach Bush and Cheney (SJM8016) has cleared the Hearing phase and now it is up to the Washington State Senate Democratic leaders to decide if it will go to the floor for a vote.

Now that US Senator Murray and US Rep Inslee have lobbied against this Bill, the Impeachment campaign in the State of Washington is shaping up to be a battle between the will of the people and the establishment. The question that will be answered is what kind of a government are we living in? A Democracy is a bottom up government of the people, by the people, and for the people. An authoritarian government dictates what the people will do through a central top down control mechanism.

The people had a companion Bill in the House until Murray said NO! Well the people say YES and we are sailing through the Senate, then we go to the House.

We have 8 days to convince the Dem leadership to send this Bill to the Senate floor for a vote. ....

....more

[L. Coyote]

28. "... Congress ought to target Cheney for impeachment rather than Bush...."

The Iran-Qaeda Scandal - Updated 2007-03-06
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=19867

Cheney’s redirection of America’s strategy contradicts Washington’s dictum by inciting foreign wars and campaigns of terror against America .....

.....

The 110th Congress promised great accomplishments. In their first 100 hours, they did pass some impressive legislation. However, due to the political dynamics – and the weakened makeup of the Senate, there is actually little room for the Democrats’ razor thin majority to manoeuvre against a presidential veto. Impeachment, that requires 67 votes for conviction in the Senate, is – at this time – out of the question. However, that situation could change if a new strategic course were adopted – one that would challenge the legality of Cheney’s covert redirection of US policy into a grand scheme to ignite a religious war of global proportions.

It is crystal clear, thanks to Hersh, that Congress should launch an investigation next week into Cheney’s costly and dangerous covert war. It would be surprising if in the course of this investigation that the Senate did not discover incriminating evidence against the Vice President linking him to the: abuses of presidential power; obstruction of justice; misappropriation of federal funds and violations of US and international law against the incitement of war, conflict and acts of terrorism.

Already more unpopular than his deeply unpopular president, Cheney should actually be the strongest, fittest and most worthy candidate for impeachment in the crosshairs of the Senate snipers. Dr Steven Jonas has been advocating that Congress ought to target Cheney for impeachment rather than Bush – and Hersh has now provided the ammunition for what appears to be an airtight case for high crimes and misdemeanours against the risk-loving Vice President ......

[L. Coyote]

29. Libby, lies and another bad war

Libby, lies and another bad war

Authors:
Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director of Europe Studies
Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
March 7, 2007 - Los Angeles Times
http://www.cfr.org/publication/12787/

The conviction of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby on charges of perjury should come as no surprise. He is only the most recent U.S. official to run afoul of the law as the result of an errant war. All too often, attempts to justify wayward wars have led U.S. leaders to exaggerate threats and defame critics, resorting to political, and sometimes criminal, machinations.

President Nixon was brought down by the Watergate scandal, an indirect byproduct of the misguided Vietnam War. After Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, exposing the misjudgments that had mired the United States in Vietnam, the Nixon administration attempted to discredit him, going so far as to break into his psychiatrist’s office. Obsessed with secrecy and fueled by paranoia, the administration was soon bugging the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex, ultimately resulting in Nixon’s impeachment and resignation.

....more.....

[L. Coyote]

30. NM Impeachment Resolution Killed (9 Dems Vote W/ Repubs ....

Hissyspit Thu Mar-08-07 05:06 PM

DISCUSS: Original message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=389&topic_id=368202&mesg_id=368202

NM Impeachment Resolution Killed (9 Dems Vote W/ Repubs To Prevent Debate)

BREAKING: NM Impeachment Resolution Killed Before Debate on Senate Floor; 9 Democrats Vote With Republicans to Prevent Debate

I just got a phone call reporting this and I don't yet know what the vote was. However, SJR 5, New Mexico's impeachment resolution, was killed when it failed to get the votes necessary to move to the Senate Floor for debate. .....

[L. Coyote]

31. Denver Area Impeachment Vigils = Every Wed. & Thurs.

March 08, 2007
Denver Area Impeachment Vigils
http://www.metrodenvergreens.org/2007/03/impeachment_vig.html

Regular Weekly Vigils To Impeach Bush and Cheney

Every Wednesday at the Colorado State Capital
Noon to 1:00 p.m.
MAP
Corner of East 14th Avenue and Lincoln Street
Denver, CO 80203

Every Thursday at U.S. Representative Diana DeGette's Office
Noon to 1:00 p.m.
MAP
Corner of East 6th Avenue and Grant Street
Denver, CO 80203

More information at www.WeekVigilstoImpeach.us

[L. Coyote]

32. nationwide day of protest for impeachment on April 28 = a28.org

"A series of coordinated initiatives this spring will culminate in a nationwide day of protest for impeachment on April 28.

George Bush and Dick Cheney have committed high crimes and misdemeanors, including misleading the nation into an aggressive war, spying in open violation of the law, and sanctioning the use of torture. A major new campaign of public protest, creative dissent, media activism, education, and coordinated lobbying has been launched to pursue accountability for these crimes through the Constitutional remedy of impeachment.

http://www.a28.org/

[L. Coyote]

33. ImpeachSpace has "Latest Impeachment Headlines"

New Social Network: ImpeachSpace has "Latest Impeachment Headlines"

http://www.impeachspace.com/