WMDs and Bush Impeachment

[Francisco Martin]

John Dean has written an article arguing that Bush's apparent lies to Congress concerning the presence of WMDs in Iraq may be grounds for impeachment. See http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030606.html. He states: "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."

 

Thoughts anyone?

 

 

Francisco Forrest Martin

President

Rights International, The Center for International Human Rights Law, Inc.

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