Impeachment

By David Swanson

Next weekend in Andover, Mass., a group of attorneys, academics, and activists will gather to plan the prosecution of Dick Cheney, George Bush, and the lawyers and advisors who, together with them, are responsible for war crimes. The conference is open to the public and expected to be well attended: http://war-crimes.info

I can’t speak for everyone involved, but I can tell you why I’ll be there. If I thought we could deter future presidents and vice presidents from read more

AGENDA FOR THE “JUSTICE ROBERT H. JACKSON CONFERENCE”: PLANNING FOR THE PROSECUTION OF HIGH LEVEL AMERICAN WAR CRIMINALS

September 13 – 14, 2008
Andover, Massachusetts

Registration details available at:
http://war-crimes.info

“The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in read more

Dear Congress,

Many of you, including both of your nominees for the throne and your Speaker and Minority Leader, claim to believe that George W. Bush and gang have not committed any crimes. To reward your perceptiveness, courage, and integrity, I would like to offer to contribute to your campaigns for reelection (in 2010 or later) if Bush does not issue any pardons for any of the crimes found in Congressman Kucinich’s articles of impeachment. read more

By David Swanson

Last August, a group of Congressman Henry Waxman’s constituents met with him and urged him to make use of inherent contempt. They were then obliged to explain to him what inherent contempt is. While the current (110th) Congress has probably seen more requests, subpoenas, and contempt citations ignored than all previous Congresses combined, Waxman has certainly endured more such insult than all other committee chairs read more

By David Swanson

Last week two judges encouraged me to look to courts to help us recover from the damage done by an outlaw executive and a spineless corrupt legislature. The first was Bush-appointed federal Judge John Bates who ruled that people must comply with Congressional subpoenas even if they used to work for the president, and this because – you know – the law requires it. The second was Judge William Price in Iowa who was hearing the case of citizens arrested for trying to read more

I was on Clout on Air America with guest host Christiane Brown and host Richard Greene tonight for over two hours, mostly about impeachment, and Christiane played clips of interviews she’d done with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. The podcast is here:
http://airamerica.com/ondemand/show/6644/0

Catch Dave Lindorff, Dave Waldman (Kagro X), and Dave Swanson discussing subpoenas, contempt, inherent contempt, and impeachment, not to mention disgusted contempt, on KPFA on Friday at noon PT, 3 p.m. ET with host Kris Welch: http://www.kpfa.org

By David Swanson

Almost every time House Speaker Nancy Pelosi explains why she won’t impeach Bush or Cheney she says that the Republicans want impeachment and that therefore she must oppose it.

She originally took impeachment “off the table” in response to a May 2006 Republican National Committee announcement that (contrary to all existing evidence) talk of impeachment would benefit Republicans in the November 2006 elections. (In fact polls showed a majority believing that electing read more

Christiane Brown from KJFK in Reno is filling in for Richard Greene on Clout on Air America tonight, and I’ll be on with her at 9 p.m. ET: http://airamerica.com/listen

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