NIXON'S (and Bush's?) Presidential Death Knell = "attempting to stop the wheels of justice"

This thread is dedicated to everyone that has sent evidence of election fraud to the current administration and not received a response.

Why is the current cover-up so important and multi-faceted? Simple. Anything less spells the end of Bush-Cheney, et.al.

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From: http://kovallan.livejournal.com/50698.html

The Real History of Gerald Ford, Watergate, and the CIA - Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Gerald Ford is dead. And for the last week, we’ve heard how he “healed” the nation in the wake of the Watergate crisis. Seriously, if I hear him called “healer” one more time I think I’ll scream, because Gerald Ford put a stake in the heart of America not once, but twice. He was a thief who stole our Real History from us ...

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.... the conversations of June 23, 1972, produced the “smoking gun tape,” showing Nixon was attempting to stop the wheels of justice, or specifically, the Justice Department’s Federal Bureau of Investigation, from pursuing the truth. Had that tape never surfaced, Watergate would have gone down in the history books the way it was first reported: as a “third rate burglary.”

So what happened to bring Nixon’s actions to light? Intrepid investigative reporting? In the fairy tale version of America, we all want to believe that. But as ever, the truth is a bit darker.

First, where did the information about the Watergate break-in come from? And second, how did it get reported in a way that was favorable to the CIA?

Haldeman worried about reports of CIA plants in the White House:

On July 10, 1975, Chairman Carl Nedzi of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee released an Inspector-General’s Report in which the CIA admitted there was a “practice of detailing CIA employees to the White House and various government agencies.” The IG Report revealed there were CIA agents in “intimate components in the Office of the President.”

Domestic CIA plants are bad enough, but in “intimate components of the office of the President?”

I was “intimate,” Ehrlichman was. Kissinger was. Who else was intimate in an official sense? Alex Butterfield, who sat right outside the President’s office? (Rose Mary Woods to this day believes he was a CIA plant. . . .)

I leave the question to rest as a part of a great mystery the significance of which may one day overshadow even Watergate: the manipulation of this nation by members of an intelligence agency.

Enter Bob Woodward. A former ONI operative, a staunch conservative, and a former intelligence briefer, Woodward was the perfect person for Washington Post chief and CIA-asset Ben Bradlee to assign to Watergate. ....

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This article appears in the July 15, 2005 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.

And, what has the Justive Department done about it?


Will Stolen Iraq Oil Funds and Deals For Cronies Force Cheney Impeachment?
by Michele Steinberg
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3228halliburton.html

On June 27, a scandal large enough to lead to the impeachment of Vice President Richard Cheney, emerged when it was revealed at a hearing called by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, that the latest figures in questionable and unsupported charges to the Department of Defense by the Halliburton Corporation, had reached over $1.4 billion. .....

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According to evidence presented on June 21 at the House Subcommittee on National Security hearing, and on June 27, by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, the following has been established:

* There are billions of dollars unaccounted for, taken in cash from the $19.6 billion Development Fund for Iraq account, created by UN Security Council resolution 1483 in May 2003, and administered solely by the U.S. occupation authority.

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* Halliburton's contracts were handled outside of the professional, competitive bidding process that is standard procedure in the Defense Department. Instead, according to Ms. Bunatine Greenhouse, the top civilian contracting official at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Halliburton contracts were given special handling directly from "the OSD," the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

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washingtonpost.com > Politics

Articles of Impeachment To Be Filed On Cheney
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/04/articles_of_impeachment_to_be.html

Looks like he's reached his boiling point.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), the most liberal of the Democratic presidential candidates in the primary field, declared in a letter sent to his Democratic House colleagues this morning that he plans to file articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.

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Here is the text of his letter, a copy of which was forwarded to the Sleuth:


April 17, 2007

Dear Colleague:

This week I intend to introduce Articles of Impeachment with respect to the conduct of Vice President Cheney. Please have your staff contact my office . . . if you would like to receive a confidential copy of the document prior to its introduction in the House.

Sincerely,

/s/

Dennis J. Kucinich

Member of Congress

Right-wingers land jobs with Bush
By Dave Zweifel
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=130302&ntpid=0

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... while the Goodling case put Regent University in the spotlight, it's remarkable that any one university in America -- and one that's been in existence for less than 30 years -- has landed 150 of its graduates in the administration of a U.S. president.

... grads of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and others never approached the numbers that a 4,000-student school, based primarily on spreading the religion touted by Robertson, has been able to achieve.

... in 1981, the leader of the Christian Reconstructionist movement, Gary North, suggested that the way to achieve power was by stealth.

"Christians must begin to organize politically within the present party structure," he said, "and they must begin to infiltrate the existing institutional order."

... that infiltration .... has led to the dismantling of the historic principle that church and state ought to be separate.

... The deceit that led to the disastrous war in Iraq was bad enough, but it was just a piece of the destruction that this man has caused our country in six short years.

Competence has meant nothing. Not only were key agencies staffed with people whose only qualifications were that they had supported or worked for Republicans, it turns out they had to be educated at the right -- far right -- place too.

Vermont senate adopts resolution to impeach Bush
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/21/worldupdates/2007-04-21T012033Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-295025-1&sec=worldupdates

BOSTON (Reuters) - The Vermont state senate passed a symbolic resolution on Friday calling on the U.S. Congress to impeach U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney over their handling of the unpopular Iraq war.

The resolution, passed by a 16 to 9 vote, urges Vermont's representatives in Washington to introduce a resolution in Congress requiring the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to start impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney.

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Bush and Cheney "have exercised the duties of their respective offices with respect to both domestic and foreign affairs in ways that raise serious questions of constitutionality, statutory legality, and abuse of public trust," the resolution said.

A similar version is pending in Vermont's state House Judiciary Committee.

Reformer.com: Impeach Bush, or get out of the way
Friday, April 13
http://www.reformer.com/ci_5657073

There will be a time when future generations will look at us and wonder why President Bush and Vice President Cheney were not removed from office.

They will look at us and question why, when confronted by the most corrupt and incompetent administration ever witnessed in the United States, nothing was done to stop Bush and Cheney.

They will look at the craven behavior of the Democrats, too afraid to take on the president when it mattered. They will look at the Republicans, so intoxicated with power that they backed their president to the hilt, even as he ran this country off a cliff.

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When the story of our time is written by future historians, there will be but one question asked: When confronted with the malevolence and mendacity of the Bush administration, how did the people in positions to do something about it react?

Does Vermont want to go down in the history books as standing up to the worst president ever? We, the people of Vermont, have the chance to affect the outcome of this story. We must seize this opportunity.

Opinion - Sunday, April 22, 2007
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070422/OPINION/704220325/1006/NEWS05


The Senate's quick vote Friday urging Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney puts Vermont at the leading edge of progressive politics in the national debate over the Iraq war, but does so at the price of the kind of participatory democracy in which we pride ourselves.

The 16-9 vote backing the resolution came without a single speech, with Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin taking advantage of the absence of Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie, who could have effectively killed the measure by referring it to committee. If the House passes the resolution, it could kick off impeachment proceedings in Congress.

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The resolution charges that Bush and Cheney have carried out their duties in such a way as to raise "serious questions of constitutionality, statutory legality and abuse of public trust." In simple terms, the Senate is saying that the president and vice president are a threat to democracy.

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News | House Speaker to allow floor vote on impeachment
By Shay Totten | Vermont Guardian
Posted April 24, 2007
http://www.vermontguardian.com/local/042007/SymingtonHouseVote.shtml


Read House Speaker Gaye Symington's full statement here (= http://www.vermontguardian.com/local/042007/SymingtonStatement.shtml ).

MONTPELIER — Reversing weeks of steadfast disapproval to take up a resolution calling for Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings of Pres. George W. Bush and Vice Pres. Dick Cheney, Democratic House Speaker Gaye Symington said Tuesday she would let such a measure come to a vote tomorrow on the House floor.

That vote will take place tomorrow afternoon when the House convenes at 1 p.m.

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State lawmakers debate Bush impeachment
Richard Roesler - Staff writer - April 20, 2007
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=9558


OLYMPIA – Protesters in the galleries erupted in cries of “Impeach! Impeach!” and “Do your jobs!” Thursday after the state Senate opted not to vote on a resolution urging a congressional impeachment investigation of President Bush.

“We must end this war. The commander in chief must be impeached,” said Sen. Eric Oemig, D-Kirkland, who’s been pushing for the resolution for months.

Despite considering several versions, Democrats said they couldn’t agree on one. Instead, Oemig and Sen. Adam Kline, D-Seattle, simply stood and spoke against the war.

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The discussion over, the Senate then broke for lunch, angering the standing-room-only crowds in the galleries. Seven people unzipped their jackets to reveal white T-shirts painted with the letters “I-M-P-E-A-C-H.”

“Cowards!” one woman yelled down at the senators.

“Your children will know this!” a man shouted.

“Vote on it!” yelled another.

Afterward, Oemig met with dozens of the demonstrators in the Senate gallery. He told them he was disappointed that more lawmakers hadn’t spoken but said he was glad the discussion was dignified.

“Take this as an important milestone,” Oemig told them. “It is not the end.”

Rep. Davis to Constituents: Make Me Impeach Bush
Thursday, 12 April 2007
by Dave Lindorff
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1340/32/


Congressman Danny Davis (D-IL), says that he firmly believes that President George Bush has committed serious impeachable crimes and abuses of power, but says that “at this time” he supports a decision by the House Democratic Caucus to put impeachment aside in the interest of helping to elect a Democratic Congress and a Democratic president in 2008.

Although in late 2005, Rep. Davis was an enthusiastic co-sponsor of a bill by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) that called for an investigation into possible impeachable acts by the president, Davis now says, “The Democratic Caucus has decided that impeachment would not be in the best interests of the country and I’m following that decision.”

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Davis says he “may have said” at a district meeting that his attitude towards impeachment could be changed if he were to receive an impeachment petition from one percent of the voters in his district (roughly 6500 people), but he declined in an interview to commit himself to a fixed number of signatures. That said, he claimed he would be prepared to act by submitting a bill of impeachment if he were convinced that impeachment is what his district wants to happen.

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Angry Nyack Residents Seek to Impeach Bush, Cheney
http://1010wins.com/pages/348487.php?contentType=4&contentId=406806

NYACK, N.Y. (1010 WINS) -- A group of Nyack residents said they are fed up with President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, and are calling for the Nyack Village Board to approve a resolution supporting their impeachment.

“We live in a constitutional democracy, but the normal checks and balances seem to be missing,” said Nyack resident David Balsam. “We now have a president and vice president who have twisted intelligence to mislead Congress into authorizing an unnecessary war; have approved electronic surveillance without legally required warrants; promoted the torture of prisoners, in violation of law and treaty. . . and that’s just for starters!”

The "Nyack Impeach Group" believes that this effort is about constitutional accountability for all presidents and government officials, current and future.

It’s Time to Impeach Bush and Cheney … Seriously
by Paul Hogarth‚ Apr. 09‚ 2007
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4385

Here in San Francisco, supporting impeachment is like preaching to the choir, but I am now convinced that it has gone from desirable to necessary. Now that Congress has voted to withdraw our troops from Iraq, the U.S. government is at an impasse. George Bush is “the Decider,” and he stubbornly refuses to work with a new Congress that was elected to end this disastrous War.

If anything, growing opposition will only make this President dig deeper into his heels. He’s a lame duck who will never have to face the voters again, so why should he give in to the will of the people? Before the Democrats wimp out and drop their efforts to withdraw, we must ratchet up the pressure – and the logical solution at this point is to call for his impeachment.

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in the 110th Congress against Richard Cheney.

4/28: Sacramentans to Join National Calls to Impeach Bush
by Broadway Reports
Friday Apr 20th, 2007 10:28 AM
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/20/18402183.php


Once again, Stephen and Virginia Pearcy have taken the lead in an effort to end the reign of terror that the Bush administration has thrusted upon Americans. The Pearcys will hold a huge IMPEACH BUSH demonstration at the popular 16th & Broadway location that they've become known for bringing to life.

On Saturday, April 28th, from 6pm to 8pm, Sacramento area peace activists are expected gather at 16th & Broadway in great strength and unity to join in the national day of action to spell IMPEACH throughout the country. As always at the Broadway location, the atmosphere will charged, energized and full of diversity.

Over the last two years, the Pearcys have organized the largest and most popular anti-war demonstrations in Sacramento. The demonstration on April 28th is expected to be yet another compelling event, especially now that support for impeachment is at an all-time high.

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Published - Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Impeach Bush and Cheney
By RONALD M. FITZPATRICK | La Crosse
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2007/04/11/opinion/letters/let2.txt
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One of the rationales that the Bush administration is citing for the continued occupation of Iraq is that: “If we don’t fight them over there we will have to fight them here.” Presumably the “them” are the terrorists/insurgents who are killing Americans with roadside bombs.

To suggest that Americans should be afraid of a bunch of anti-American extremists who are setting up roadside bombs 8,000 miles away from the United States is utterly absurd. To put 150,000 Americans in harm’s way so that we can be safe from these roadside bombers is insane.

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Bush and Cheney should be impeached immediately.

Published - Saturday, April 21, 2007
Media should back impeachment
By CHARLES YOUNG, Holmen, Wis.
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2007/04/21/opinion/letters/01letters0422.txt


I’m wondering where the concern, anger and outrage are regarding what’s happening to our Constitution and democracy?

The media seem silent except for the bloggers. Where is our “fourth estate,” and why aren’t they speaking to the groundswell of grassroots efforts to impeach Bush and Cheney for their many high crimes and misdemeanors?

This administration has done more damage to our Constitution and democracy than any terrorist has ever done. Multiple reasons for impeachment abound from misrepresenting the facts so as to get us into this illegal, immoral war, to spying on

U.S. citizens, violating the Constitution by using “signing statements” to defy hundreds of laws passed by Congress, and committing treason by exposing the identity of a covert CIA agent.

There are more reasons, .............

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How many scandals do Bush/Cheney et.al. have? How many can you add to this list??
I'm failing to find an "umbrella-gate" term for them all. Some have several names.
From a Google search of "gate scandal bush" one gets about 980,000 results.
In no particular order, here are the ones that floated to the top:

April 21, 2007 at 16:37:51
TEN REASONS TO IMPEACH CHENEY AND BUSH NOW
by Allen L Roland
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_allen_l__070421_ten_reasons_to_impea.htm

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men: George Orwell

Vermont senators voted Friday to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, saying their actions have raised "serious questions of constitutionality."
http://cbs2chicago.com/national/topstories_story_110100239.html

Please join myself and millions of Americans in standing with Vermont, whose state motto is FREEDOM AND UNITY, in calling for the impeachment, on April 28th, of George W Bush and Dick Cheney for the following reasons:

1. Violating the United Nations Charter by launching an illegal "War of Aggression" against Iraq without cause, using fraud to sell the war to Congress and the public, misusing government funds to begin bombing without Congressional authorization, and subjecting our military personnel to unnecessary harm, debilitating injuries, and deaths.

2. Violating U.S. and international law by authorizing the torture of thousands of captives, .............

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"Helen Thomas Compares Bush’s White House to Watergate" by William Hughes
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=24691

William Hughes is a Baltimore author, attorney, educator and professional actor. He has been writing political commentaries for over 40 years. .....
April 18, 2007

Helen Thomas:

“What is victory and what is defeat? You might try to remember that it is their country. The President’s popularity polls have been in the 30s. And, the White House is circling the wagons, under siege, very reminiscent of the early stages of Watergate--the Nixon era. Right now a scandal involved the politicalization of the Justice Department with the firing of eight prosecutors has engulfed the White House. We have an ‘imperial presidency’ apparently answerable to none, aided and abetted by ‘Chicken Democrats,’ who fiddle with time tables, bench marks to hold back the dawn.”

Ms. Thomas continued: “How primitive can you get to start a new century with a war--a war of choice? We have a President who decided to attack a country that did nothing to us. I say: ‘Cry the beloved country!’ So, we have so many wrongs to right before our country gets back its honor. Hopefully, the American people will not accept this President’s primitive drive for war without end. What can he be thinking? More than that: Why do Americans tolerate such a dumbing down of our country? The American people will soon say: Enough is enough! It is wrong to ask the ultimate sacrifice of friend and foe without a good reason--an acceptable reason. We have yet to hear the real reason why we went into Iraq. I say: Truth took a holiday!” (1)

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"The States Take the Lead" By Sarah Wheaton
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/the-states-take-the-lead/


Those who are impatient with gridlock in Washington are turning to their state capitals, where Main Street takes on everyone from Wall Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Vermont Senate: Bush Impeachment
Indeed, Vermont’s Senate is trying to issue an eviction notice to the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The majority Democratic body passed a nonbinding resolution directing Congressman Peter Welch to introduce a bill that would start impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. ....

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Good comments, and add your own.

What do we do with W for the duration?
April 22, 2007
By OLIVER R. GOODENOUGH
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070422/OPINION04/704220314/1024/OPINION04

So what is the country to do with George W. Bush? There are still a few diehard supporters out there, clinging to the tattered remnants of his self-proclaimed reputation for toughness, faith and tax reduction. And a few of these diehards don't work for FOX News or the Wall Street Journal. The rest of us are ready, desperately ready, for a new hand on the tiller and a new course for the ship of state. The polls, the last election, just talking with relatives and friends from around the United States, these all confirm that a big majority is well and truly fed up.

There is no need for this column to go through the litany of incompetence, failure and fraud that can be laid at the feet of the Bush administration. ....

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Then again, there are all those missing e-mails from Karl Rove. Something that is a Bush administration high crime or misdemeanor may yet turn up. But be careful what you wish for. The necessity for impeachment would be one parting piece of damage that this administration could still inflict on us.

Oliver R. Goodenough is a professor of law at Vermont Law School.

At Last, Kucinich Begins His Quest for Impeachment
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/04/kucinich_files_impeachment_art.html

He finally did it!

After delaying, rescheduling, postponing yet again, and then re-rescheduling, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) finally held a news conference late today launching his Quixotic quest to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney.

Accompanied by his red-headed, statuesque bride and a handful of aides, Kucinich approached a set of microphones at an outdoor news conference on Capitol Hill and somberly began reciting from the Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident..."

A dark-horse Democratic candidate for president whose name is usually accompanied by an asterisk in the polls, Kucinich introduced a House resolution "impeaching Richard B. Cheney, vice president of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors" .....

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Kucinich: Cheney deceived Americans and must be impeached
Posted by Sabrina Eaton April 24, 2007 18:26PM
http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2007/04/kucinich_cheney_deceived_ameri.html


After hinting for weeks that he would initiate impeachment actions against the Bush administration, Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich this afternoon introduced articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.

Kucinich said Congress should oust Cheney from office for purposely fabricating intelligence in the runup to the Iraq war, thereby deceiving some in Congress and the public into believing war was necessary. He also said Cheney manipulated intelligence about purported links between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al-Qaida, the group responsible for 9/11.

And more recently, said Kucinich, unveiling his three articles of impeachment at a news conference across from the Capitol, Cheney threatened aggression against Iran when Iran has not threatened the United States.

"This goes beyond partisan terms," Kucinich said. "This becomes a question of who we are as a people."

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Ohio congressman files articles of impeachment against Cheney
Apr 24, 2007 4:28 PM (1 hr 12 mins ago)
http://www.examiner.com/a-692465~Ohio_congressman_files_articles_of_impeachment_against_Cheney.html


WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich filed articles of impeachment Tuesday against Vice President Dick Cheney, saying his action is driven by a desire to defend Americans' right "to have a government that is honest and peaceful."

The Ohio congressman said Cheney manipulated and fabricated intelligence on weapons of mass destruction to justify the Iraq war.

Kucinich said it was important to introduce the legislation "because the threat of war against Iran is very real."

"This vice president cannot be permitted to continue to violate both the U.S. Constitution and the U.N. Charter," he added.

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Congressman Kucinich Introduces Impeachment Articles Against Dick Cheney
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268201,00.html

WASHINGTON — Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced three articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney on Tuesday, saying the vice president lied to America to get into a war in Iraq.

Kucinich, a 2008 presidential candidate, said Cheney misled the nation about Iraq's having weapons of mass destruction; he had been deceitful about a nexus between Iraq and Al Qaeda and was being aggressive toward Iran "absent any real threat" from the Islamic Republic.

Cheney "purposely altered intelligence gathering to justify the use of the Armed Forces in Iraq in a manner damaging to national security," the first article reads. The vice president also is accused of using the "intelligence process to deceive citizens and Congress about the tie between Iraq and Al Qaeda in a manner damaging to the United States."

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Kucinich’s Impeachment Proposal Takes Antiwar Stand to New Lengths
By Marie Horrigan, CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY
Published: April 24, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2007/04/24/cq_2628.html


Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich on Tuesday introduced articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney for “high crimes and misdemeanors” related to his participation in the buildup for the war in Iraq — and what the longshot Democratic presidential contender said was belligerent rhetoric toward Iran.

In an 18-page draft resolution, Kucinich outlined three charges against Cheney: that he “manipulated the intelligence process . . . by fabricating the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction” to justify the war in Iraq; that he deceived citizens and Congress “about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda” to justify the war; and that he has “openly threatened aggression against the Republic of Iran, absent any real threat to the United States, and has done so with the United States’ proven capability to carry out such threats.”

“In all this, Vice President Richard B. Cheney has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as vice president, and subversive to constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and the manifest injury of the people of the United States . . . by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office,” the resolution concluded.

Kucinich introduced the articles at a news conference held at 5 p.m. Tuesday on Capitol Hill, ...............

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Senior Democrat Plans Speech Attacking Bush Record
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 24, 2007; 8:54 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/24/AR2007042402006.html


A senior Democratic leader, in a speech Wednesday at the Brookings Institution, will tie together a long series of Bush administration scandals, controversies and missteps into what he argues is a campaign to turn the government into an appendage of the Republican Party.

The speech by House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) marks an escalation in the party's rhetorical war with President Bush. For much of last year's campaign season, Democrats called the Bush administration incompetent. Now they are preparing a darker case, accusing the administration of harboring malevolent intent.

To make his case, Emanuel will cite the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, the discrediting of a key critic of the justification for war in Iraq, the hiring of young, inexperienced Republicans to oversee Iraq's reconstruction, secret meetings between Vice President Cheney's energy task force and oil industry executives, the downplaying of links between greenhouse-gas emissions and global warming, the alleged use of the General Services Administration for partisan purposes and the hiring of an attorney for the International Arabian Horse Association to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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TPM: DOJ caught concealing facts from Judiciary Committee. = Rep. Renzi (R AZ)

April 24, 2007 -- 10:12 PM EDT
So it looks like Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) is tied up in the US Attorney Purge scandal after all. And the AP has the story.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013821.php


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Unlike what happened with David Iglesias, Charlton's chief investigator did report the contact to the Department of Justice, as DOJ regs dictate.

Now, here's the key: after all Congress's document and information requests to DOJ, the Justice Department had not revealed the Renzi-Charlton contact. For some reason, they've held that back.

The AP sources that to a House Judiciary Committee official and I've also confirmed with House Judiciary investigators that the DOJ failed to give this information to congressional investigators. ...

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kpete Tue Apr-24-07 09:16 PM
DOJ CONCEALED CRITICAL INFO-Rep. Renzi Tied To US Attorney Purge Scandal

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Hissyspit Wed Apr-25-07 04:17 AM
Ramsey Clark: "The Winds Of Impeachment Are Sweeping The Country"

Via Email from ImpeachBush.org:

Statement by Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General:
“The winds of impeachment are sweeping the country.”

The following is a press release sent to the national and international media by ImpeachBush.org.

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“The crimes committed by President Bush and Vice President Cheney are numerous. The Bush Administration’s war of aggression, its assault on human dignity at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, demeaning the Geneva Conventions and Habeas Corpus, invading the privacy of any American it chooses, corrupting the rule of law in the Department of Justice and others.

“President Bush and Vice President Cheney should be held accountable as it is proscribed in the Constitution, Article II, Section 4: The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office or impeachment for and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

“The authors of the Constitution were serious about impeachment and intended that the carefully prescribed procedures and principles of impeachment written into the text be faithfully executed. We, the growing impeachment movement that is sweeping this country from one end to the other, will make the members of the House of Representatives become as serious and courageous about impeachment as the Founding Fathers were.”