Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Bush Anti-Impeachment Strategy Laid Bare, Former Congressman and Prosecutor Barr, Outlines Gameplan in Op-Ed Piece

This article by Bob Barr,describes in explicit terms, the strategy which is now developing in the White House to prevent George Bush and Dick Cheney's impeachments.
Barr begins as follows:


"Two of the most powerful moments of political déjà vu I have ever experienced took place recently in the context of the Bush administration's defense of presidentially ordered electronic spying on American citizens.

First, in the best tradition of former President Bill Clinton's classic, "it-all-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-is-is" defense, President Bush responded to a question at a White House news conference about what now appears to be a clear violation of federal electronic monitoring laws by trying to argue that he had not ordered the National Security Agency to "monitor" phone and e-mail communications of American citizens without court order; he had merely ordered them to "detect" improper communications.

Your editor highly recommends that you read the complete piece at the link below.

Link to the complete article here:
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/1205/28edbarr.html

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