Hearing Calls for Impeachment

Congressman Conyers, D of NY, and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, held hearings today in Washington on Bush impeachment.

The subject was illegal wiretapping by Bush's NSA, that went around the FISA and Patriot Act laws and wiretapped American citizens inside the country en masse! Of course, the questioners were all D congresspersons- don't count on a full House hearing anytime soon. Still, the expert testimony was overwhelmingly damning of the administration and came from both sides of the political spectrum.

Professor J. Turley, a staunch conservative law professor and outspoken advocate of impeaching Bill Clinton, outright stated that Bush's actions were impeachable- no doubt. Concurring were Justice Department officials, like former Dep. Attorney General and right-wing thinker Bruce Fein from the Reagan administration, and other legal authorities and public activists. The concensus was that the recently released legal justifications by the Bush Justice Dept. for the surveillance were incredibly weak and didn't pass the laugh test.

The Senate will be holding full hearings in February. Everyone needs to get the word out to their Senators not to let the administration get a pass on this one- its too important! Listen, if this was Bill Clinton we were talking about, he'd be in jail already. . .

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