Impeachment is the cure for a constitutional crisis. Don't mistake the medicine for the disease. When you have a constitutional crisis, the founders are very clear. They said there is a way to deal with this. We don't have to have a war. We don't have to raise an army and go to Washington. We have procedures in place where we can sanction a president appropriately, do what needs to be done up to the point of removing him from office and continue the republic. - John Nichols in Tough Talk on Impeachment

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Five years and counting

Submitted by johnheuer on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 21:56.
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Five Years and Counting

Five years ago George Bush announced the invasion of Iraq, justified by the threat imposed by the Iraqi regime. It turned out that Saddam was a toothless tiger, despite our assistance to him for decades. The Bush/Cheney regime justified an invasion of Iraq based on the threats of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, because they knew that the American people would not rally behind the cause of “democracy building” in Iraq. The administration launched this war on a platform of deception.

Why Bush Hasn't Been Impeached: CIA Infiltration and Mass Media

Submitted by cstalber on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 09:04.
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The CIA has effectively thwarted impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney through ruses perpetrated on the Internet and other mass media.

Wonder why Bush hasn't been impeached yet? Well, while it is true that key members of Congress would be implicated in crimes that would be exposed during hearings (e.g. Pelosi and torture), the other truth of the matter may lie in covert operations run by the CIA through their probable infiltration of the impeachment movement to ensure its failure.

We all know about how unreported the "I" word is in the major media. We all say 'Thank God for the Internet' as it is perceived by people to be an
unfettered means of information dissemination and communication. But what I find amazing is that it does not occur to people that the CIA is also likely
manipulating information that passes over the Internet.

Back in early 2006 I contacted the major Internet web sites who appeared to be advocating and organizing for impeachment. Examples included democrats.com, afterdowningstreet.org, impeachforpeace.org, among others. I repeatedly offered to help organize the movement and suggested a coordinated Internet effort. With over 20 years of information technology and project management experience (and at the time being head of the Web Services group at the State of North Carolina Office of Information Technology Services), I had a lot of knowledge and experience to lend. Needless to say my offers of assistance fell on deaf ears.

The Internet has been proven to be effective at organizing mass movements. It is my personal opinion that the CIA knew that so they funded mole web sites and other Internet initiatives early on in an attempt to not only shape and control what people were thinking in regards to impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney, but to also gather intelligence and sow chaos and confusion in the movement, ensuring its lack of organization and effectivness. This was mere kids play for Karl Rove and the CIA.

For more information on the CIA and its activities, Google these search terms/visit these web sites

Operation CHAOS
Project MERRIMAC
Project MINARET
Project RESISTANCE
Project SHAMROCK
COINTELPRO
ECHELON

Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation
http://www.magickriver.net/mockingbird.htm

CIA INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION ABOUT AMERICANS:CHAOS AND THE OFFICE OF SECURITY
http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/churchfinalreportIIIi.htm

Open letter to Nancy Pelosi

Submitted by johnheuer on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 10:23.
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Dear Speaker Pelosi,

As you may be aware, several citizens attended your November '07 address at Meredith College in Raleigh prepared to challenge you on the theme of the lecture series “Ethical Leadership.” The program issued for the event advertised a rigorous discussion of the lecture theme.

Those of us who came to Meredith to challenge your leadership were threatened with arrest if we attempted to display signs, distribute literature, or strayed outside our designated “Free Speech” pen, defined by a circle of orange traffic cones set up out of view of the hall where you were speaking.

As a member of the Grass Roots Impeachment Movement, I came to Meredith to ask you these questions:

If you take impeachment off the table, are you not placing yourself in complicity with, and accessory to the impeachable crimes ascribed to George Bush and Dick Cheney?

And if, as speaker of the house, leader of the majority party who sets the agenda in the house of representatives, you have the power to take impeachment off the table, how can you argue that you lack the power to take war funding off the table?

Madame Speaker, you can’t have it both ways. If you prevent impeachment hearings, you may as well re-register yourself as a Republican, since you are essentially providing the Bush administration the same protection as the 109th Republican Congress.

If you claim to want to end the US occupation of Iraq, but refuse to stop occupation funding, then you are violating your trust as a servant to the people, and are as guilty as Bush and Cheney.

The Constitutional remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors committed by our chief executives is impeachment. If Bush and Cheney are protected by this Democratic Congress from hearings on impeachable crimes, we can never expect that any future administration will be held accountable for lawlessness.

Madame Speaker, you can show us the way and endear yourself to generations of Americans if you remove this veil from your eyes and the eyes of your fellow citizens. We need impeachment hearings NOW!

Wexler: Cheney impeachment ‘far stronger than Watergate.’

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 08:40.
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Last night, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) took to the House floor to urge the House Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment hearings into Vice President
Cheney for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Wexler, who has already acquired nearly 190,000 supporters through his website, explained his next steps:

Tomorrow, I will deliver these names to my colleagues on the Judiciary Committee with a letter to my friend, Chairman Conyers, calling for hearings. I will ask my colleagues to sign this letter … Continuing every
day for months, I will publish in the Congressional Record several thousand names of supporters who signed up.

History demands that we take action, because the case against Vice President Cheney is far stronger than the illegality surrounding Watergate.

Watch Wexler’s speech:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/16/wexler-cheney-impeachment-stronger-t...

A CASE FOR HEARINGS

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 12/17/2007 - 08:26.
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By Representatives and Members of the Judiciary Committee:
Robert Wexler (D-FL), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)

On November 7, the House of Representatives voted to send a resolution of impeachment of Vice President Cheney to the Judiciary Committee. As Members of the House Judiciary Committee, we strongly believe these important hearings should begin.

The issues at hand are too serious to ignore, including credible allegations of abuse of power that if proven may well constitute high crimes and misdemeanors under our constitution. The charges against Vice President Cheney relate to his deceptive actions leading up to the Iraq war, the revelation of the identity of a covert agent for political retaliation, and the illegal wiretapping of American citizens.

November Poll Shows Increasing Support for Impeachment

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 09:15.
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A poll conducted by the respected American Research Group in November shows increasing support for the impeachment and removal from office of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Basically the same poll was conducted in July and the increase amounted to approximately ten percentage (10%) points.

A total of 64% of American voters say that President George W. Bush has abused his powers as president. Of the total, 53% say the abuses rise to the level of impeachable offenses and Mr. Bush should be impeached and removed from office.

A total of 70% of American voters say that Vice President Dick Cheney has abused his powers as vice president. Of the total, 61% say the abuses rise to the level of impeachable offenses and Mr. Cheney should be impeached and removed from office.

View poll report