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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary Clinton: Mueller documented a serious crime against all Americans. Here's how to respond.
Hillary Clinton: Mueller documented a serious crime against all Americans. Heres how to respond.
Former Democratic presidential candidate calls for Congress to be "deliberate, fair and fearless." (Danielle Kunitz, Kate Woodsome, Joshua Carroll/The Washington Post)
By Hillary Clinton
April 24 at 4:44 PM
Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president.
Our election was corrupted, our democracy assaulted, our sovereignty and security violated. This is the definitive conclusion of special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs report. It documents a serious crime against the American people.The debate about how to respond to Russias sweeping and systematic attack and how to hold President Trump accountable for obstructing the investigation and possibly breaking the law has been reduced to a false choice: immediate impeachment or nothing. History suggests theres a better way to think about the choices ahead.
Obviously, this is personal for me, and some may say Im not the right messenger. But my perspective is not just that of a former candidate and target of the Russian plot. I am also a former senator and secretary of state who served during much of Vladimir Putins ascent, sat across the table from him and knows firsthand that he seeks to weaken our country.
I am also someone who, by a strange twist of fate, was a young staff attorney on the House Judiciary Committees Watergate impeachment inquiry in 1974, as well as first lady during the impeachment process that began in 1998. And I was a senator for New York after 9/11, when Congress had to respond to an attack on our country. Each of these experiences offers important lessons for how we should proceed today.
First, like in any time our nation is threatened, we have to remember that this is bigger than politics. What our country needs now is clear-eyed patriotism, not reflexive partisanship. Whether they like it or not, Republicans in Congress share the constitutional responsibility to protect the country. Muellers report leaves many unanswered questions in part because of Attorney General William P. Barrs redactions and obfuscations. But it is a road map. Its up to members of both parties to see where that road map leads to the eventual filing of articles of impeachment, or not. Either way, the nations interests will be best served by putting party and political considerations aside and being deliberate, fair and fearless.
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We have to get this right. The Mueller report isnt just a reckoning about our recent history; its also a warning about the future. Unless checked, the Russians will interfere again in 2020, and possibly other adversaries, such as China or North Korea, will as well. This is an urgent threat. Nobody but Americans should be able to decide Americas future. And, unless hes held accountable, the president may show even more disregard for the laws of the land and the obligations of his office. He will likely redouble his efforts to advance Putins agenda, including rolling back sanctions, weakening NATO and undermining the European Union. Of all the lessons from our history, the one thats most important may be that each of us has a vital role to play as citizens. A crime was committed against all Americans, and all Americans should demand action and accountability. Our founders envisioned the danger we face today and designed a system to meet it. Now its up to us to prove the wisdom of our Constitution, the resilience of our democracy and the strength of our nation.
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Hillary Clinton: Mueller documented a serious crime against all Americans. Here's how to respond. (Original Post)
niyad
Apr 2019
OP
Everyone who posts about her piece fails to quote the RESPONSE she is calling for.
SunSeeker
Apr 2019
#3
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)1. thank you niyad
"A crime was committed against all Americans, and all Americans should demand action and accountability."
niyad
(113,966 posts)2. such a simple, accurate, horrifying statement.
SunSeeker
(51,814 posts)3. Everyone who posts about her piece fails to quote the RESPONSE she is calling for.
She is calling for immediate impeachment investigation hearings. Here are her key paragraphs:
Watergate offers a better precedent. Then, as now, there was an investigation that found evidence of corruption and a coverup. It was complemented by public hearings conducted by a Senate select committee, which insisted that executive privilege could not be used to shield criminal conduct and compelled White House aides to testify. The televised hearings added to the factual record and, crucially, helped the public understand the facts in a way that no dense legal report could. Similar hearings with Mueller, former White House counsel Donald McGahn and other key witnesses could do the same today.
During Watergate, the House Judiciary Committee also began a formal impeachment inquiry that was led by John Doar, a widely respected former Justice Department official and hero of the civil rights struggle. He was determined to run a process that the public and history would judge as fair and thorough, no matter the outcome. If todays House proceeds to an impeachment inquiry, I hope it will find someone as distinguished and principled as Doar to lead it.
During Watergate, the House Judiciary Committee also began a formal impeachment inquiry that was led by John Doar, a widely respected former Justice Department official and hero of the civil rights struggle. He was determined to run a process that the public and history would judge as fair and thorough, no matter the outcome. If todays House proceeds to an impeachment inquiry, I hope it will find someone as distinguished and principled as Doar to lead it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-mueller-documented-a-serious-crime-against-all-americans-heres-how-to-respond/2019/04/24/1e8f7e16-66b7-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html?utm_term=.108a5648959e
Hillary should know, she was there, as an impeachment attorney for the committee. The process started with a formal House Resolution: "An impeachment process against Richard Nixon was formally initiated on February 6, 1974, when the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution, H.Res. 803, giving its Judiciary Committee authority to investigate whether sufficient grounds existed to impeach Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States of high crimes and misdemeanors, primarily related to the Watergate scandal....The Judiciary Committee set up a staff, the Impeachment Inquiry staff, to handle looking into the charges, that was separate from its regular Permanent staff. Based upon the recommendations of many in the legal community, John Doar, a well-known civil rights attorney in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who was a long-time Republican turned Independent, was hired by Rodino in December 1973 to be the lead special counsel for the Impeachment Inquiry staff. Doar shared with Rodino a view that the Senate hearings had gone overboard with leaked revelations and witnesses compelled to testify under immunity grants; they were determined to do things in a more thorough and objective process." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_process_against_Richard_Nixon
That is what we need to do now, start the impeachment process with a resolution giving the House authority to commence formal impeachment investigation hearings.