Continued from First essay here
Hearing can be watched at CSPAN
House Judiciary Committee members have made their opening statements, and witnesses have made their opening statements. House members are now questioning the witnesses. Here is the witness list:
Panel One
The Honorable Dennis Kucinich, Representative from Ohio
The Honorable Maurice Hinchey, Representative from New York
The Honorable Walter Jones, Representative from North Carolina
The Honorable Brad Miller, Representative from North Carolina
Panel Two
The Honorable Elizabeth Holtzman, Former Representative from New York
The Honorable Bob Barr, Former Representative from Georgia, 2008 Libertarian Nominee for President
The Honorable Ross C. “Rocky” Anderson, Founder and President, High Roads for Human Rights
Stephen Presser, Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History, Northwestern University School of Law
Bruce Fein, Associate Deputy Attorney General, 1981-82, Chairman, American Freedom Agenda
Vincent Bugliosi, Author and former Los Angeles County Prosecutor
Jeremy A. Rabkin, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
Elliott Adams, President of the Board, Veterans for Peace
Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., Senior Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
UPDATE: I overlooked jimstarro’s excellent essay this morning, “Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations”
Please, go give this some ponies : )
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Thanks to all of you for being here!
prosecution being applicable after he leaves office.
Like Osama could have taken over Iraq to use for his own.
All rights stripped away! No protective measures in place in this country to truly protect us.
just said Buchannan was the worst President because America fell apart on his watch. Man must be living in a cave.
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if the Attorney Generals are protecting us from terrorists, then who is protecting us from the Attorney Generals?
what you wrote.
own integrity, oath, etc.? I don’t think so!
He wants the people to impeach Bush in November. Like Bush is running again. Election year BULLSHIT!!!
was an UNsuccessful attack? WTF?
He would support it if it’s gotten going by another or others!
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when the hearing will be completed, and Conyers answers, when all of the members have completed their inquiry, and not a minute later.
He goes back to Clinton, as though Clinton was responsible for 9/11, etc.
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my video feed is frozen on Gohmert – anyone else having that problem?
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Conyers asked staff to remove signs from those at the hearing, or for the people to leave…
on Impeachment, using Cause Calling.
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other countries have WMD’s, but we didn’t invade them
Repub member grew very impatient –
makes me so happy I believe in Karma.
So 2 of Cheneys 3 branches can.
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if, in fact, the VP is a member of Congress as Addington claimed, is he impeachable. Fein says, yes, there is precedent for that. So, that claim couldn’t be used as an excuse by VP, regardless of which branch he claims he’s in…
Presser!
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they said he was Presser
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would impact the administration’s apparent intent to attack Iran.
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are the appointment of a select committee – similar to the Church Committee – and drafting legislation that addresses the use/misuse of signing statements, and secret laws coming out of the OLC.
It wouldn’t take that long based on blatant and documented abuses toward Congress alone!
They got Presser and Rabkin both to admit if info was purposly misleading that its impeachable.
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Presser and Rabkin to agree that if the facts are proven to be true that the administration deliberately deceived Congress, an impeachment inquiry would be justified.
I paraphrased a lot, but that was the essence…
He has two separate docs., one for Congress, one by the intelligence. The one presented Congress didn’t include the intelligence’s assessment. That should “prove” what Kucinich has said!
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views in intelligence isn’t deliberately misleading Congress…
crowd reacts – Lungren gets fussy – Conyers says that those who continue to react will not be invited back to the hearing.
and see what they do. I sure hope they do something!
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will keep the record open for 5 days…
I’ll try to find the transcript to post here, for those who missed the live hearing.
subpoena
subpoena
subpoena
It’s going to be very hard to prove intent on the lying-to-war to the point that Republicans will jump on board. But as Wexler correctly pointed out, there is no denying that this administration has been absolutely blatant in its refusal to accept Congress’ power of subpoena.
Hit them there. It’s not the most egregious thing they’ve done, but it’s the weakest of their defenses.
I think, don’t you?
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at CSPAN – all 6 hours, tonight at 8:00 eastern time.
missed the morning panel. But I can’t “live-blog” – guess its related to the walk and chew gum kind of limitation.
But my reaction is that they gathered an incredibly strong panel of witnesses that SHOULD make them extremely uncomfortable with their lack of action.
I’m not sure it changes much at this point – but I give them credit for not going easy on themselves with the testimony they invited in. A strong case was made.
in the mail.
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who participated here with me today.
A special thanks to NPK, who is a much faster typer than I am!