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Unimpeachable Conservative Calls for Bush/Cheney Impeachment Email Print

Bruce Fein, a constitutional lawyer with unimpeachable conservative credentials was on Bill Moyers Journal saying things that used to be considered "porn" on Daily Kos.  He is saying things many people their still have to be convinced make sense.  He's calling for the impeachment of Bush AND Cheney.  Immediately!

Here is the Link to the ENTIRE interview and transcript.

Fein was there at Watergate.  Fein helped draft the articles of impeachment for Clinton.  This is stunning. Someone needs to send it to Nancy, tape her eyelids open and make her watch it.  This is historic.

HERE'S THE BOTTOM LINE TAKE HOME TALKING POINTS:

  1. Impeachment is not a constitutional crisis. It is the CURE for constitutional crisis. (Nichols)

  2. Let unchallenged, these powers will be lying around like loaded weapons for future presidents. (Fein)

More pyrotechnics below the fold as Fein defends "The Fighting Constitution"...

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How the White House Shielded Leakers of Plame's Identity Email Print

Notwithstanding testimony a week ago by James Knodell, Director of the White House Office of Security, evidence suggests that the White House did, actually, investigate the leak of classified information about Valerie Plame's covert CIA identity; but, only after President Bush revised security clearance laws in ways that would get leakers - and himself - off the hook. Rather than have Knodell investigate, it appears Bush tasked Joshua Bolten, then Director of the Office of Managment and Budget (OMB), to provide oversight of the process, per a little noticed Executive Order.

Overall, the evidence suggests a deliberate attempt by the President to legitimize staff leaks and to insulate the leakers from meaningful accountability.

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Mything the Point of "C