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> The 25th Amendment: Use It or Lose It
>
> by Tom Matthes
>
> The knives are out for Attorney General Janet Reno. Members of
> Congress are demanding her resignation or dismissal because of
> incompetence in the investigation of Chinese espionage. But there are
> two problems with this allegation.
>
> The first is the White House defends her. The second is it's not clear
> she blew the investigation. Why should the Congress assume her refusal
> to order a wiretap requested by the FBI was not in accord with
> presidential wishes? After all, President Clinton has lied about his
> knowledge of the investigation during a nationally televised news
> conference. Tim Russert proved this presidential mendacity while
> questioning Energy Secretary Bill Richardson on �Meet the Press.� So
> why make Janet Reno �take the fall� if the President, whom she has
> faithfully shielded from an independent counsel probe of his campaign
> finance violations, is part of a cover-up?
>
> Obviously, Congress has no stomach for a second impeachment, even
> though Clinton's defense attorneys acknowledged treason is grounds for
> removing a President from office (they denied perjury is grounds for
> impeachment).
>
> But there is another way to force a President to step aside if he is a
> danger to the public good: the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.
> Section IV empowers the Vice president and a majority of the cabinet
> to install the Vice president as �Acting President� through a written
> declaration to the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro
> tempore �that the President is unable to discharge the powers and
> duties of his office.� Or, Congress �may by law provide� some �other
> body� to make the same written determination.
>
> This amendment was drafted after the assassination of President
> Kennedy. Had he not died quickly from his wounds, JFK would have been
> a brain dead chief executive. So the new amendment allows the vice
> president to step in if the president is incapacitated.
>
> Mental illness should also be grounds for removing a president from
> office for incapacity in the nuclear age. And there are plenty of
> reasons to consider William Jefferson Clinton mentally ill, if not
> criminally insane. New York Times columnist William Safire, although
> not arguing for invoking the amendment, has put it succinctly: �We
> have a President who has a problem: he lies when he doesn't really
> have to.� Safire cites Clinton's recent claims he has not ruled out
> using ground forces in the Kosovo war, when his promise not to use
> them is on the public record, and his claim that no one briefed him
> about possible Chinese espionage. Both lies are easily proven, yet the
> president seems compelled to make them.
>
> George Stephanopoulos has even suggested that, during the Monica
> Lewinsky scandal last year, there were times the President convinced
> himself that he had never had �sexual relations with that woman.�
> There are reports he was still repeating that lie to White House
> staffers a few days before the grand jury deposition, when he finally
> admitted Lewinsky had sex with him. In short, compulsive lying led to
> his impeachment. And that was before Juanita Broaddrick came forward
> with a rape allegation.
>
> The difference between a republic and a monarchy, or dictatorship, is
> slipping away from the US government. The Senate acquittal of Clinton,
> even after Senator Robert Byrd admitted the president was guilty as
> charged (and voted against removal), destroys the principal that the
> chief executive is not above the law. The successful defense that the
> President can only be impeached for treason and not the �Bribery, or
> other High Crimes and Misdemeanors� cited by the Constitution all but
> eliminates impeachment as a peacetime defense against executive
> tyranny. Does anyone believe Richard Nixon would have been impeached
> had he served after the Clinton defense?
>
> We now have a President who brazenly lies about the most serious
> issues of national security. He is suspected of looking the other way
> while China stole almost every US nuclear weapons secret, while taking
> illegal campaign contributions from the Chinese army. If he actually
> believes he was not briefed about this espionage, he no longer can
> separate his lies from reality. Therefore, the President is either a
> traitor or is mentally deranged and should be relieved of his duties
> as commander in chief.
>
> The 25th Amendment allows a President removed on grounds of incapacity
> to defend his ability to serve before the Congress and to argue for
> his restoration to office. Our lawmakers should make him explain his
> lies: is he a criminal or merely nuts? If he is a criminal, impeach
> him again. If not, let him finish his term on the sidelines under the
> 25th Amendment. Use it as it was meant to be used. As Ronald Reagan
> would say, �if not now, when?� The 25th Amendment can preserve the
> nation from an incapable leader. It may be our final defense against
> tyranny.
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