Impeach Bush and the Bush Administration
"'The president's dead wrong. It's not a close question. Federal law is clear,' said Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University and a specialist in surveillance law. 'When the president admits that he violated federal law, that raises serious constitutional questions of high crimes and misdemeanors.'
'There's little enthusiasm for impeachment in the Republican-controlled Congress, but few lawmakers have rallied to Bush's defense.'
Here's commentator Jack Cafferty on CNN yesterday: 'If you listen carefully, you can hear the word impeachment. Two congressional Democrats are using it. And they're not the only ones.'
Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter writes about the spying program : 'This will all play out eventually in congressional committees and in the United States Supreme Court. If the Democrats regain control of Congress, there may even be articles of impeachment introduced. Similar abuse of power was part of the impeachment charge brought against Richard Nixon in 1974.'
(Alter also reports 'that on December 6, Bush summoned [New York] Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger and executive editor Bill Keller to the Oval Office in a futile attempt to talk them out of running' the Dec. 16 Times story that first reported Bush's secret authorization of the eavesdropping."
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