Rep. Nadler: "My personal hope is that the president...will be prosecuted after they leave office"

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Meanwhile, both chambers' Armed Services and foreign affairs committees have pilloried the Bush administration for its handling of the Iraq war, and the Intelligence, Homeland Security, and Judiciary panels have challenged the administration's competence and adherence to the law in running the Justice and Homeland Security departments, the CIA, and other intelligence agencies. "My personal hope is that the president and other members of his administration will be prosecuted after they leave office," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. He believes that the administration has broken the law in pursuit of its anti-terrorism mission.

Targeting all of those areas -- and then some -- is oversight czar Waxman, whose committee has investigated a wide range of federal agencies and private-sector groups over the past year.

Witnesses before his committee have included Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent whose outing led to the prosecution of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff for obstruction of justice; Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, whose company is under investigation after its security personnel killed Iraqi civilians while on duty; and then-State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard, who resigned after testifying before Waxman.

"We approached our oversight responsibilities this past year, and we're going to continue in the future, on three overarching themes," Waxman said in an interview. "The first was to look at waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars; the second is to make sure the government is working for the people; and the third is to hold the government accountable."

Congressman John Olver Believes Bush Will Cancel 2008 Elections, Still Refuses to Support Impeaching Him or Cheney
Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2007-07-05 23:29. Congress | Impeachment

By Bob Feuer
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/24358