Congress Announces First Investigation into the Crimes of the Bush Administration

HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE Oversight Hearing on: "Presidential Signing Statements under the Bush Administration: A Threat to Checks and Balances and the Rule of Law?"

10:15 a.m., Wednesday, January 31, 2007, Room 2141 Rayburn House Office Building

Confirmed Witnesses:
Karen Mathis, ABA President
Mickey Edwards, Former Republican Congressman
Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School
John Elwood, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel of DOJ
Nicholas Rozenkranz, Georgetown University

THANK Congressman John Conyers: (202) 225-5126, John.Conyers@mail.house.gov

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The Fearless Leaders In The White House:

It`s Overdue That The Whole Group Was Not Only Impeached But Was
Tried For The Crimes That They All Have Committed.

Thank Conyers for what? Avoiding impeachment?

Anybody who can read the Constitution can tell you that we don't need any time consuming "investigations" to determine whether or not Bush's signing statements represent a threat to checks and balances and the rule of law.

When the President of the United States thinks a stroke of his pen allows him to ignore laws passed by Congress at his whim, we don't need to sit around and chat about whether or not he's wrong. We need to act immediately to remove him from office.

The evidence is all in the record, much of it compiled by Conyers himself. George W. Bush is unquestionably the most impeachable president in the history of our country.

I'll thank Mr. Conyers when the Pretender-in-Chief is impeached and convicted.

http://www.johnperryonline.com
Demanding Truth, Accountability and Justice.

Thanks, John Conyers, for aiding and abetting FASCISM

and dictatorship, and enless war, destruction of the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and everything good about this country. Thank you very much for allowing a dictator and mass murderer run roughshod over our inalienable rights as citizens. Thank you for aiding and abetting torture, murder, and illegal wars on innocent people. Thanks lots!!!

Thank You Congressman John Conyers !!! :o)

We all took baby steps before we walked... that's kinda how impeachment works... it's gotta start somewhere ...10:15am on January 31, 2007 is a good time ... I'll be sure to mark my calendar ;o)

IMPEACH PNAC> "OUT" THE CABAL !

http://tinyurl.com/a8uz9

Untruths and Inconsequential Actions

Jan. 28, 2003 THE FELONY
Feb. 3, 2003 A BIGGER LIE THAT OMITS THE FELONY

Result?
Over 650 thousand Iraqis and 3000+ American soldiers silenced, FOREVER!

Revealed -
Sen. Chuck Hagel in an interview with GQ Magazine...and I edit for brevity...

We've abdicated our responsibilities. And if you recall, the White House had announced that they didn't need that authority from Congress (to invade Iraq). Mr. [Alberto] Gonzales was the president's counsel at that time, and he wrote a memo to the president saying, "You have all the powers that you need." So I called Andy Card, who was then the chief of staff, and said, "Andy, I don't think you have a shred of ground to stand on, but more to the point, why would a president seriously consider taking a nation to war without Congress being with him?" So a few of us—Joe Biden, Dick Lugar, and I—were invited into discussions with the White House. "It is incredible". That's what I said to Andy Card. Said it to Powell, said it to Rice. Might have even said it to the president. And finally, begrudgingly, they sent over a resolution for Congress to approve. Well, it was astounding. It said they could go anywhere in the region. (Bush's original AUMF) said the whole region! They could go into Greece or anywhere. I mean, is Central Asia in the region? I suppose! Sure as hell it was clear they meant the whole Middle East. It was anything they wanted. It was literally anything. No boundaries. No restrictions. Wide open. We had to rewrite it. Joe Biden, Dick Lugar, and I stripped the language that the White House had set up, and put our language in it. I'm not defending our votes; I'm just giving a little history of how this happened. All this stuff was doctored. Absolutely. But that's what we were presented with. And I'm not dismissing our responsibility to look into the thing, because there were senators who said, "I don't believe them." But I was told by the president—we all were—that he would exhaust every diplomatic effort. I eventually was sure they knew. Even before we actually invaded, I had a pretty clear sense of it—that this administration was hell-bent on going to war in Iraq.

GQ: Even if it meant deceiving Congress?
That's right.

U N A C C E P T A B L E!

That the President can knowingly commit a FELONY and be rewarded with a war that profits his friends.

WHERE IS THE JUSTICE?

Until there is some, anything goes with this group of corrupt mobsters. ANYTHING!

I hate to make the comparison, but Hitler didn't just want Austria when he invaded but the whole of Europe.

OPEN YOUR EYES MY FRIEND!

While it may not be the same, it is OF the same intention; HEGEMONY through military coercion (aka TERRORISM). It may not be as systematic as the Nazi's in Germany were, the clowns dressed in Presidential costumes, now, keep tripping over their egos. For that, we should be grateful. But to stand still and not flinch? PATRIOTIC SUICIDE!

Signing statements are what happens when LIARS are allowed to LIE.

Mobsters are what happens when criminals are allowed to profit from their crimes.

Band-aids? or surgical cancerous removal?
Is this really THAT tough of a decision?

Oh, I forgot...
IT'S ABOUT '08. ISN'T IT?
BULLSHIT!

What does '08 have to do with the National Security of a Nation shamed and loathed for their Foreign (non-diplomatic) Policy that ferments disgust each and every day the criminals are free?
As IF '08 will change this in the worlds eye? BULLSHIT!

National Security begins at home!

Bush's continual assault upon our securities and the continued infringement upon other nationals world wide happens because he's allowed to. In his most recent SOTU he addressed all of Congress and implored that YOU, Congress, continue the fight to keep America and Her people secure.

Let me remind you, Congressman, that it is the Constitution and the Bill of Rights that affords me my securities not the actions of men. Allow those securities to be taken away, and you do us a disfavor and a great injustice.

Give me Liberty or give me death

Why wait for '08
When it will be too late?

I Suppose IF you have to start somewhere, well, you might as well examine what compels the man to create those caveats that grant himself such unconstitutional powers in the first place. "I'll follow the law unless..."

But to ask, under Bush? How about, at all!

Does the President have or hold the capability to craft law? Or merely to veto the crafted laws as presented so as to be sent back for better craftsmanship? If only to include Presidential caveats.

To be honest, I let out a big "All right!"

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You aren't defending, protecting, preserving the Constitution of the USA
When you allow the usurpations of the Constitutional laws of the USA.

Untruths...

This is amazing. How have these things come to pass in our country? How is it that there are not throngs of people in the streets with bags of feathers and vats of hot tar? I suppose it's because people are paying so much attention to the IMPORTANT issues that they can't be bothered with this. After all, who cares about the constitution and the history and future of our country when there are matters of such urgency, like whether or not Emmet can do a better CHA-CHA than Mario.

Drysdale

P.S.- Great post, MAX, as usual!

MD

MAX, You are a Consummate Patriot

I need not add a thing to your post. I just wanted to throw in my 2 cents worth of support for everything you said in your post.

Let's see how the MSM covers DC tomorrow. They are getting a chance to redeem themselves for their dreadful non-showing in DC on 9/24/05!

Magnetic Ribbons And The Yellowcake Of Faith

When we wake puking shame
at last, and know the dream
for sham, embraced en masse...
When bells that rang victorious
hang mute, their tarnished claims
ignored in disrepute, and
bitter sons, having been all they
could be, can't wish back innocence
or the leg below the knee...

(This brash regime's trimmed reason
from its ranks, its black guard
in the street, protecting flanks.)

...then will we heed the schemers'
gloating leer? "There's no future
for dissidents here."
Row on row, with hand
in trembling hand, it's come to this.
WE DREAMERS PLAN TO STAND!

Bush Investigation needs to look at his Texan past.

Thank you Mr Conyers for investigating Bush's crimes. Please look into any crimes (or evidence of such) he committed while Governor of Texas, as well as DWI convictions he's had before serving the public, including allegations of spousal abuse due to alcoholism.

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