Kudos to Kucinich, But There’s More to Impeach Cheney For

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http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx042507

Kudos to Kucinich, But There’s More to Impeach Cheney For
By Matthew Rothschild

April 25, 2007

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But what about Cheney’s role in the torture scandal? He said the United States needed to go to the “dark side,” and his legal staff was deeply involved in working with Alberto Gonzales as White House counsel to draft the permissive standards on torture.

What about Cheney’s role in the illegal transfer of detainees to foreign countries for torture?

What about Cheney’s role in the illegal NSA spying scandal, which he has defended to the hilt?

Or in the signing statements that have so subverted our constitutional system?

“The office of Vice President Dick Cheney routinely reviews pieces of legislation before they reach the president's desk, searching for provisions that Cheney believes would infringe on presidential power, according to former White House and Justice Department officials,” wrote Charlie Savage of the Boston Globe last May. “The officials said Cheney’s legal adviser and chief of staff, David Addington, is the Bush administration’s leading architect of the ‘signing statements’ the president has appended to more than 750 laws.” Savage just won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the signing statements.

Or what about Cheney’s profiting from the sweetheart deals that Halliburton won from the Pentagon in Iraq?

Or what about Cheney’s role in the Valerie Plame outing? “There is a cloud over the Vice President,” said Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

In all of these extra areas, too, Kucinich’s following words apply to Cheney: He has “acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Vice President, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore Richard B. Cheney, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.”

He sure does.

The sooner, the better.

And then on to Bush.