Impeachment: We Have What Conyers Needs!

[babylonsister]

Impeachment: We Have What Conyers Needs!
by Freiheit
Tue Jun 10, 2008 at 10:51:18 AM PDT


House Judiciary Chair and Daily Kos contributor John Conyers has asked for a new tack on impeachment - a better way to challenge the party Leadership that has been obstructing him. And we've got it!

The 35 Articles of Impeachment raised yesterday include at least two that implicate leaders in Congress as apparent accessories to Bush's high crimes and misdemeanors. Specifically, the bipartisan Congressional "Gang of Eight" was secretly tipped off about warrantless NSA surveillance and torture (Articles #24 and #18) years before the New York Times and Washington Post revealed them to the public. Those reports have never been disputed.

Under the House Ethics Rules, Nancy Pelosi and other witnesses (who may be accessories) are required to recuse themselves from participation to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest. They are interested parties who can not in good faith move to keep impeachment off the table.

This gives John Conyers - who was not in the secret meetings - a historically strong hand to disregard the party leader's "keep it off the table" and instead insure that justice is done.

All Conyers has to do is publicly state Pelosi's conflict - which should be obvious to anyone with legal training anyway. Note that Pelosi's compliance with torture revelations was not revealed publicly until December 2007, and impeachment was only filed yesterday. If Conyers acts now he will not be obstructing or derelict in his duty.

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/10/123917/099

[Wizard777]

1. So pelosi is doing a CYA. Take her out and put her on the sidelines.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. yep, she is

and we have some legal cute names for this

[Wizard777]

11. Yep, Political diseases. CYA is the leading cause of CRS.

[EFerrari]

5. Won't happen. We need to be so loud that Pelosi give Conyers

the green light.

That's going to be very difficult.

[tavalon]

17. Especially since we know she is an accessory and may in fact be a coconspirator

She'd be crazy not to try to keep it off the table. She doesn't want to go to prison. Who would?

[jakem]

23. K&R

[Hart2008]

3. K & R

[slipslidingaway]

4. K&R n/t

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[cui bono]

7. I like it. n/t

[Swamp Rat]

8. EVERYONE FAX, CALL CONYERS NOW!! .......... THIS IS IT!!!! THE OPENING!!!!!

:kick:

Washington, D.C. Email:
[e-mail]

Washington, D.C. Address
2426 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

District Address
669 Federal Building, 231 West Lafayette Boulevard
Detroit, MI 48226-2766
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

District Address
2615 West Jefferson
Trenton, MI 48183
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Key Staff Address
Rinia Shelby
Scheduler
2426 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Key Staff Address
Cynthia Martin
Chief of Staff
2426 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Key Staff Address
Karen Morgan
Press Secretary
2426 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

[ljm2002]

22. I just called...

...told the staffer I want to add my voice to those encouraging John Conyers to go ahead with impeachment hearings. I told her that right now, we are all Good Germans until someone in government stands up to this lawless administration...

I hope it helps.

[Swamp Rat]

25. It's the least we can do.

Certainly it is better than whining about impeachment, "blah blah blaaaaah, it's a waste of time."

[lonestarnot]

9. Woot! calling!

:applause:

[bluesmail]

10. If crossing fingers helps along with

:kick: It's going in the right direction.

[cyberpj]

12. K&R. Keep this moving up the rec list. I'll be calling tomorrow! nt.

[pleah]

13. K&R!!!!!!!!!

[Wizard777]

14. Ring that phone off the hook!

Impeachment should not be off the table.

[lovuian]

15. Ahhh so this is why those secret meetings were such a trap

it makes the ones who attended part of the crime ohhh and she must recuse herself this is a BIG WHOAH

Kick & recommend

[tavalon]

18. That really is the only thing that gives me any hope

Even so, I doubt Conyer's veracity at this point so I will believe it when I see it.

[tavalon]

16. We have what Conyer's needs?

Did someone find him a backbone? It's about time. I think it was extraordinarily kind of Kucinich to donate his but I'm not sure it's long enough. We shall see.

[Raksha]

19. If she's complicit she has no business being Speaker either.

If she'd have to recuse herself, she should at the very least be removed from that position. Then she has no authority to take impeachment off the table (not that she ever did).

[99th_Monkey]

20. Works for me. Speaker Pelosi, you are now recused! ~nt~

[Swamp Rat]

21. kick

[jakem]

24. K&R

[crickets]

26. K&R

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