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John Dean on "Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction"
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Fri, 6 Jun 2003 19:21:38 GMT
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Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction:
Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/dean/20030606.html
To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on
bogus information, he is cooked. Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national
security intelligence data, if proven, could be “a high crime” under the
Constitution’s impeachment clause. It would also be a violation of federal
criminal law, including the broad federal anti-conspiracy statute, which renders
it a felony “to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner
or for any purpose.”
It’s important to recall that when Richard Nixon resigned, he was about to be
impeached by the House of Representatives for misusing the CIA and FBI. After
Watergate, all presidents are on notice that manipulating or misusing any agency
of the executive branch improperly is a serious abuse of presidential power.
Nixon claimed that his misuses of the federal agencies for his political
purposes were in the interest of national security. The same kind of thinking
might lead a President to manipulate and misuse national security agencies or
their intelligence to create a phony reason to lead the nation into a
politically desirable war. Let us hope that is not the case.
Edit: a former insider, conspirator, convicted felon, and Republican; Dean is
the sort of individual that knows the stink of corruption firsthand -- you might
recall him from a little scandal we call “Watergate.”
-- Hop-Frog
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