CONYERS on elections, push for impeachment?, "dictoral flavor", Iraq

CONYERS
Veteran Democrat raises worries on civil liberties, 2002 Iraq attack plan

By Larisa Alexandrovna and John Byrne | RAW STORY

In an interview with RAW STORY, Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) raised concerns about a document which suggests President Bush may have knowingly misled the country into war and expressed serious worries about the ebbing of civil liberties.

“There’s a dictatorial flavor that comes into this matter,” Conyers said, speaking of efforts of the current Bush Administration. “This chipping away from what we thought we had and what was in stone: the Civil Rights Act, the Voter Rights Act, the ability of states to process their own judicial cases without federal intervention—all of these things mean we’re not where we were; we’re slipping back and what we’re slipping back into in the cumulative sense is something a little bit scary.”

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Conyers says some have called upon him to push for impeachment, but he avoided the term in conversation with RAW STORY. The congressman was a member of the Judiciary Committee in its 1974 hearings on the Nixon’s impeachment; he suggested that details of the Iraq deal might trickle out as they did with Watergate under President Nixon.

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On the issue of civil liberties, RAW STORY raised a question some readers have asked, whether the congressman thought it was a reach to imagine the turn by the current Administration to infringe about personal privacy could result in something as drastic as martial law.

“I’m not so sure that there’s a lot of reaching necessary,” he remarked. “In totality, we’re moving into a different kind of country under different kind of law. For a president who has won each of his two elections by two states and each time the state that provided him with the margin had the most violations and irregularities of voting procedure of any other state in each election – obviously Florida and Ohio – he’s acting as if he had a mandate.”

More: http://www.rawstory.com/

Thank You for this post!

Since he said people have approached him about calling for impeachment, this must mean there has been serious discussion about it. Right?

This article is showing up here, there, and everywhere. :) (Four pages on google so far)

Public, Press Attitudes Differ on Accuracy

By WILL LESTER

WASHINGTON - Two-thirds of Americans say they think that when journalists make a serious mistake, most news organizations either ignore it or try to cover it up, a survey found.

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A congressman who organized a panel to examine the role played by the media said Tuesday that news organizations have drifted toward tabloid journalism and have been intimidated from reporting about the war in Iraq.

"The vast majority of the mainstream media is not only unwilling to accurately report on the failings of the administration, but the few who do have fallen victim to scapegoating and retribution," said Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. "We have turned from breaking stories like Watergate and the Iran-Contra scandal to celebrity journalism."

The congressman released an analysis by Congressional Research Service which found that reports in the British media about the United States and Great Britain secretly agreeing to invade Iraq received very little coverage on major cable TV outlets in the days after it was published in Britain.

Link: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7969000/

...is that that would require troops, and our troops are busy in Iraq.
Once they start up the draft, martial law won't be far behind.