To wit:
To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked. Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be "a high crime" under the Constitution's impeachment clause. It would also be a violation of federal criminal law, including the broad federal anti-conspiracy statute, which renders it a felony "to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose."Bush's statement in the letter to Congress, if not true (which he admitted), is clearly defrauding an agency of the United States. This is why I specified said letter. It doesn't matter if it was a "fudge," "exaggeration for effect," or "mischaracterization." Bush provided fraudulent information to Congress to justify a war. Given the Rove Regime's long and careful campaign of equating Iraq with al-Qaeda, this was almost certainly deliberate. I can't imagine a more impeachable offense than that.
Nailed.
(/) Roland X
Of course, we still have the most partisan Congress in living memory to deal with...
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