Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Congressman Conyers Issues Report, Calls for Hearings Regarding Censure and Possible Impeachment of Bush, Cheney


Congressman John Conyers of Michigan today commented on a report issued by his staff which indicates that both George Bush and Dick Cheney have committed possible impeachable offenses.
It is no surprise to the staff of The World Monitor, that committee hearings with impeachment and censure as their focus are now forming. Following is an excerpt of Congressman Conyers' statement today.

"The Report concludes that a number of these actions amount to prima facie evidence (evidence sufficiently strong to presume the allegations are true) that federal criminal laws have been violated. Legal violations span from false statements to Congress to whistleblower laws.

The Report also concludes that these charges clearly rise to the level of impeachable conduct. However, because the Administration has failed to respond to requests for information about these charges, it is not yet possible to conclude that an impeachment inquiry or articles of impeachment are warranted.
In response to the Report, I have already taken a number of actions. First, I have introduced a resolution (H. Res. 635) creating a Select Committee with subpoena authority to investigate the misconduct of the Bush Administration with regard to the Iraq war and report on possible impeachable offenses. In Watergate, for example, the Congress did not begin matters as an impeachment inquiry, but investigated matters through the Ervin Committee and referred impeachable evidence to the Judiciary Committee.

Second, I have introduced Resolutions regarding both President Bush (H. Res. 636) and Vice-President Cheney (H. Res. 637) proposing that they be censured by Congress based on the uncontroverted evidence already on the record and their failure to respond to Congressional and public inquiries about these matters and have never accounted for their many specific misstatements in the run up to War."

The complete article may be read at this link:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=24125

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