Congressman Wexler Calls for Impeachment Hearings Against Cheney; Confronts Mukasey

Posted by Damozel |   In all the fuss over the primaries, it's easy to forget this key fact:  BUSH IS STILL PRESIDENT.  In fact, we want be well and truly done with him till January of next year.  So the following should be of concern to all who are fed up with the Bush regime. 

Congressman Wexler sets out his reasons for demanding the impeachment of Cheney here.  "These charges are too serious to ignore."

If you're on board---and after hearing this, I think you will be---you can sign the petition at WexlerWantsHearings.com.

Congressman Wexler asks Mukasey if he has been instructed by the president to enforce---or not to enforce---the contempt citations against Miers and Cheney.  "With respect," Mukasey refuses to say.  He says there is a long line of authority saying that enforcement of contempt citations is not permitted if the president directs a member of the executive branch not to produce documents.  As always, Clinton gets blamed.  Wexler shines here:  "Are you the people's lawyer, as you said to the Senate, or are you the president's lawyer?"

At TPM, David Kurz writes:

DOJ will not be investigating:

(1) whether the waterboarding, now admitted to by the White House, was a crime; or

(2) whether the Administration's warrantless wiretapping was illegal.

 [Mukasey's] rationale? Both programs had been signed off on in advance as legal by the Justice Department....We have now the Attorney General of the United States telling Congress that it's not against the law for the President to violate the law if his own Department of Justice says it's not.

It is as brazen a defense of the unitary executive as anything put forward by the Administration in the last seven years, and it comes from an attorney general who was supposed to be not just a more professional, but a more moderate, version of Alberto Gonzales (Thanks to Democrats like Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer for caving on the Mukasey nomination.).  (TPM; emphasis added)

See also Steve Benen's piece at Crooks and Liars.

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Comments

[Raphael]

Here you can see Mukaseys hearing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SPdd5fxzG0