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Today, America learned that the CIA took videotapes of the torture of people kept prisoner by the President of the United States, and then destroyed them. When a federal judge asked to see the videotapes, the CIA lied to the judge and said that the videotapes never existed.

The videotapes could have been used as evidence of prosecutorial misconduct in a criminal trial, and were destroyed in order to prevent the torture from ever being known by the American public.

But, will anyone in the CIA be held responsible? Will George W. Bush be impeached?

No, no, certainly not. After all, the news was released on a Friday, and very few Americans were in the mood to pay attention to serious things. Tomorrow, there shall be college football, and the day after that, the NFL games, and then, by Monday it will be mostly forgotten.

Justice will rot underneath our feet, and nothing will be done to stop it.

Thanksgiving will be a holiday of specific thanks this year for Americans who care about the rule of law. Dennis Kucinich has promised that he will take to the floor of the House of Representatives and make a motion to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney, and do it before Thanksgiving. Kucinich has already introduced an impeachment resolution to the House. Now, Kucinich will force a vote by formally moving impeachment to consideration through the power of of personal privilege.

It’s about time. Actually, it’s long past time.

Please call your member of Congress, and him or her to support Kucinich, and vote in favor of the impeachment of Cheney.

United States District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has issued an official ruling that President George W. Bush violated the Constitution of the United States of America and broke the law in doing so. Her written opinion contains the following statements:

“In enacting FISA, Congress made numerous concessions to stated executive needs. They include delaying the applications for warrants until after surveillance has begun for several types of exigencies, reducing the probable cause requirement to a less stringent standard, provision of a single court of judicial experts, and extension of the duration of approved wiretaps from thirty days (under Title III) to a ninety day term.

All of the above Congressional concessions to Executive need and to the exigencies of our present situation as a people, however, have been futile. The wiretapping program here in litigation has undisputedly been continued for at least five years, it has undisputedly been implemented without regard to FISA and of course the more stringent standards of Title III, and obviously in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

The President of the United States is himself created by that same Constitution. “

I love that last line. The Constitution that George W. Bush violated in the name of presidential powers is the same Constitution that created the Presidency. Beautiful!

The Judge also wrote that “In this case, the President has acted, undisputedly, as FISA forbids. FISA is the expressed statutory policy of our Congress.” and “For all of the reasons outlined above, this court is constrained to grant to Plaintiffs the Partial Summary Judgment requested, and holds that the TSP violates the APA; the Separation of Powers doctrine; the First and Fourth Amendments of the United States Constitution; and the statutory law.”

Catch that? The judge has ruled George W. Bush did not just violate the Constitution. The judge ruled that Bush broke the law.

So come on, America! Are we going to impeach this jerk or what?

Yesterday, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales admitted that President George W. Bush himself personally prevented investigators from the Justice Department from gaining access to documents during their attempt to investigate the illegal National Security Agency program to eavesdrop on Americans’ private telephone calls without getting any constitutionally required search warrant or court approval.

This took place although Bush personally gave access to the same areas to investigators with the mission to track down and punish who blew the whistle on the illegal program.

What was George W. Bush trying to cover up? What was so terrible that he could not allow Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s own men to see it?

America, please listen: The President of the United States does not have the power to deny access to investigators from the Justice Department who are seeking to determine whether he committed a crime. In this case, the coverup itself may well be a crime.

Something has gone terribly wrong. The President of the United States has been caught committing one crime on top of another crime.

I know it’s summer. I know that there are fun things to do, like watching Superman movies and eating ice cream, but please, America, will you finally stand up and say enough is enough???

The grassroots movement to impeach Bush is getting whipped up into high energy, and a lot of people in the movement are getting intensely angry. The unrelenting attacks against our basic liberties are fueling a strong backlash across America.

The strength of this backlash against George W. Bush is necessary to push the complacent Democrats in Congress to finally do something to stop the terrible criminal activities of the Bush Administration. However, as we experience this rush of energy, let’s make sure that we don’t allow the surge to consume our reason.

I was handed a Fraudulent Event Note, worth one deception, with 9-11 in the corners, and a sneering portrait of George W. Bush, with Dick Cheney and Karl Rove in the background. Scrawled on the fake bill was the phrase impeach the terrorists, and web addresses for September 11 conspiracy sites were placed all over the mock money.

I’m all for impeaching George W. Bush, but I’m realistic enough to recognize that accusing Bush of “terrorism” is not the easiest path in this struggle. Oh, it feels good for some of us, a way to vent our anger, to call Bush a “terrorist”, but this language will turn off all but the most hard core anti-Bush activists.

Furthermore, we don’t need conspiracy theories alleging that George W. Bush somehow was behind the attacks against the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. These charges just aren’t necessary to bring impeachment. There’s more than enough substantiated in the public record to put George W. Bush in prison, where he belongs. There is no reason shoot for a slam dunk when a simple bank shot will do the job.

The word came out today that Karl Rove will not be prosecuted for his involvement in the leak of an undercover CIA agent’s identity in order to enact revenge against a critic of George W. Bush. Let us not forget, however, that Lewis Libby remains under indictment, and increasingly seems to be turning against Vice President Dick Cheney in an effort to save his own skin. We’ll see what comes of that.

But, in spite of everything, it’s not looking good for the effort to bring George W. Bush to justice for his crimes. Even the Democrats in Congress seem cowed by Bush, and eager to let the whole thing go… let the Bill of Rights go… let habeas corpus go… let the balance of powers go… let the rule of law go.

Those few Americans who still believe in freedom can be forgiven for seeing little hope in recent events.

A few days back, we reported to you the news that a newspaper article about Joseph Wilson, with notes in Vice President Dick Cheney’s handwriting on it, was being entered as a piece of evidence into the trial of Dick Cheney’s top aide, Lewis Libby, on charges of obstructing justice by helping the Bush Administration to cover up its role in the leak of the identity of Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, as an undercover CIA agent. This morning, there are additional signs that Dick Cheney is being dragged into the center of the criminal prosecution, and may soon be testifying under oath at Libby’s trial.

A recently revealed document from the office of Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald reads,

“Contrary to defendant’s assertion, the government has not represented that it does not intend to call the Vice President as a witness at trial.”

Andrew Cohen at the Washington Post writes that Cheney “has personal information about a material part of a criminal case and it would malpractice on the part of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald not to consider him as a potential witness.”

Once Dick Cheney is under oath, who knows what kinds of questions might be asked about the White House’s deceptive preparations for war. Their back is to the wall, and it’s only a matter of time before the bloodletting begins.

Truthout is reporting that Karl Rove was indicted on charges related to the Valerie Plame case on Friday.

There has yet to be any official confirmation by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald of an indictment of Karl Rove, but here’s what Truthout is reporting:

“Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove. During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning.

Robert Luskin, Rove’s attorney, did not return a call for comment. Sources said Fitzgerald was in Washington, DC, Friday and met with Luskin for about 15 hours to go over the charges against Rove, which include perjury and lying to investigators about how and when Rove discovered that Valerie Plame Wilson was a covert CIA operative and whether he shared that information with reporters, sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said. It was still unknown Saturday whether Fitzgerald charged Rove with a more serious obstruction of justice charge. Sources close to the case said Friday that it appeared very likely that an obstruction charge against Rove would be included with charges of perjury and lying to investigators. An announcement by Fitzgerald is expected to come this week, sources close to the case said. However, the day and time is unknown.”

Lewis Libby turned on Karl Rove and Dick Cheney when he was indicted. Who will Karl Rove turn against in order to save his own skin?