Local ACLU Calls For Impeachment... Again (CA - Cite CIA Tapes/Nixon Similarities)

Source: Pasadena Weekly

Local ACLU calls for impeachment… again
By Kevin Uhrich

If history really does repeat itself, George W. Bush is in big trouble.

Even before reports that the CIA destroyed two videotapes of prisoners supposedly being questioned under torture sparked outcry in Congress and the media, 40 members of the ACLU of Southern California’s board of directors had voted unanimously, with one abstention, to support the start of impeachment proceedings against Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Speaking Friday to KPFK radio, former ACLU of Southern California President Stephen Rohde said the vote mirrored similar action taken in 1971 to impeach former President Richard Nixon. Nixon resigned in 1974, before Congress could impeach him for his role in the Watergate burglary and cover-up. By that time, however, ACLU chapters in other major cities and the national chapter in Washington had followed the SoCal chapter’s lead and called for Nixon’s impeachment.

“Our hope is by being the first affiliate to call for impeachment we will encourage other affiliates to join us and seek to have the national board consider the issue next year,” said Rohde, a founding member of the Pasadena-based Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace.

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Another similarity to questions of impeachment in the 1970s and now is the role played by electronic recordings. In 1973, tapes of presidential conversations in the Oval Office that were turned over to investigators in the Watergate case were missing 18 minutes of discussion. In the case of the missing interrogation footage, CIA Director Michael Hayden has said the CIA destroyed the tapes “only after it was determined they were no longer of intelligence value and not relevant to any internal, legislative or judicial inquiries,” according to a CNN report.

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... some time in 2010.

...except for the one wimp who decided to abstain. WTF? Chickensh*t, it's a crucial yes/no vote regarding Constitutional violations at the highest levels of government. The fate of the nation hangs in the balance. Take a stand or get off the ACLU board of directors. Sheesh. :eyes:

Roughly half the country and several Congressmen have been calling for impeachment for a long time. The corporate congress is going to do nothing but sell the country down the drain.