Impeachment

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A new report by a journalist who has seen a secret 2007 report by the International Committee of the Red Cross concludes:

“Beginning in the spring of 2002 the United States government began to torture prisoners. This torture, approved by the President of the United States and monitored in its daily unfolding by senior officials, including the nation’s highest law enforcement officer, clearly violated major treaty obligations of the United States, including the Geneva Conventions and read more

By David Swanson

Democrats in Congress respected former Attorney General Michael Mukasey beyond any measure he appeared to have earned, and to the extent of fully expecting him to perform his duties even in the most difficult circumstances. In contrast, the same Congress members do not believe Attorney General Eric Holder is up to the job.

As exhibit 1 in a demonstration of the above claims, let me offer a letter that 56 Democratic members read more

By David Swanson

I’m fairly sure that the step that would most strongly deter future crimes by high officials in Washington would be criminal prosecution and incarceration of Bush and Cheney. At the federal level, that means asking the attorney general to appoint an independent prosecutor. And, of course, Bush and Cheney did not act alone — others on their team should be in prison too.

But what role does this leave for Congress? How can any separation of powers be restored? How can read more

You read it here first, and then in the New York Times, and now Mukasey agrees to:

Attorney General Michael Mukasey raised concerns that government agents and national security lawyers may be at risk for criminal prosecution after his likely successor, Eric Holder, declared that waterboarding of terror detainees is torture….

…He added that in the future, government lawyers and agents “have to be concerned that you may someday — having given your best, most honest, most impartial read more

By David Swanson

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has released a lengthy new report that updates his previous report originally released in 2005 documenting Bush and Cheney’s crimes and impeachable offenses. The new report recommends that the Attorney General appoint a Special Counsel, even while making other recommendations that could delay read more

Dear President Elect Obama,

On his third day in office President Grant revoked two pardons that had been granted by President Andrew Johnson. President Nixon also undid a pardon that had been granted by President Lyndon Johnson. There may be other examples of this, as these two have somewhat accidentally come up in a discussion focused on numerous examples of presidents undoing pardons that they had themselves granted, something the current president did last week. (See read more

An ornament urging Bush’s impeachment has been removed from the White House Christmas tree, but there’s no reason you can’t have impeachment for your holiday celebration and prosecution in the new year. Watch this video!

For $10.23 at Amazon.com you can have “The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting read more

By David Swanson

So, now we discover that Bush was warned in detail of the looming foreclosure crisis and told what would prevent it and what would make it worse. He chose to make it worse. Funny, he was also warned about Hurricane Katrina (we have the videotape), but he claimed he had no possible way of knowing what could happen. He was warned exactly how the Iraqis would react to an occupation of their country, but he said he had no idea. He got a memo describing the 9-11 attacks pretty clearly read more

Nicole Sandler filled in for Rachel Maddow on Air America and was nice enough to have me on to talk with her about impeachment, pardons, and prosecutions: LISTEN.