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Re: John Dean on "Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction"
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Fri, 6 Jun 2003 19:54:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote:
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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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Oh but there’s so much ‘wiggle-room’.
“Hey, we found these mobile lab trucks that were used to make WoMD--there’s your
proof! I didn’t lie!” says Dubya.
And of course, there’s probably in the very near future “Oh look here under this
rock that all other inspectors looked under before--we found a cache of
Anthrax!”--read planted evidence.
Not that I’m jumping to conclusions, mind you. Basing conclusions on untruths
and ‘made up’ facts would be unwarranted in this case--“Saddam is a clear and
imminent danger to the US of A!”
Oh wait--this was a Dilbert comic I read a while back, “I did the analysis using
your bad assumptions. Then I applied your flawed logic and arrived at your
predetermined answer. Shall I begin disillusioning the team?”
But he has the house, the senate and the courts--you think impeachment is even
remotely going to happen? He was appointed president, wasn’t he?
King George (as someone else said earlier) is quite appropos.
Welcome back to monarchy, baby. Glad you saw fit to return to the ‘old school’
where your leaders can ‘do no wrong’ when they’re being morons.
Dave K
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