t r u t h o u t - Stirling Newberry | Trial by Constitution

John Dean said it in the title of his book: "Worse than Watergate". Well, it's WAY WORSE than Watergate when as is becoming increasingly obvious to perceptive folks out there that this administration was hellbent to attack Iraq BEFORE 9/11 and simply used the "convenience" of Al Qaeda to "fix the facts" to meet the policy.

t r u t h o u t - Stirling Newberry | Trial by Constitution An excerpt:


" One way to tell that the movement toward impeachment has already begun, and that it has members in the most unlikely of places, and indeed members who will publicly deny they are moving in that direction at all, is the introduction of the language of Constitutional conflict. The current slogan of the Democrats in both House and Senate is that the Republicans are guilty of 'Abuse of Power.' It is a phrase that should be familiar: it is the title of Article II of the Impeachment Articles passed by the House Judiciary Committee on July 29th, 1974.

Frank Lautenberg has also brought forth the language of impeachment: by using the word 'Treason' to describe the breach of national security by Karl Rove. The word 'impeachment' has, itself, surfaced in connection with Rove, floated by John Conyers, who wrote the introduction for John Bonifaz's book. The language of impeachment has not just surfaced in rhetorical ways, but in an even more portentious place: in the proceedings of the Grand Jury that has been empanelled to investigate whether crimes were committed in connection with the outing of Valerie Wilson a.k.a. Valerie Plame.

It should be remembered that one of the killing blows against Nixon was that he was named as an 'unindicted co-conspirator.' It was not Congress that began the real inquiry into Nixon, it was the judicial process. Just as revelations discovered by a grand jury in 1973 and 1974 placed the scandal 'inside the White House,' so too have revelations in 2004 and 2005 placed the scandal inside the Oval Office: with Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, two top aids to the President and Vice President respectively."