MEDIA BLACKOUT OF THIS HEARING... NETWORK
AUDIO: C-SPAN: Limits of Executive Power (Impeachment)
THIS IS A HISTORY MAKING HEARING!
Judiciary Cmte. hearing on the executive power
and the Bush Admin. The hearing is partly based on a single
article of impeachment he brought against Pres. Bush, and on
alleged misconduct and unlawful expansion of executive power.
C-SPAN: Limits of Executive Power (Impeachment)
AUDIO: (THIS IS A 2 HOUR HEARING THAT TURNED INTO 6 HOURS:
AUDIO: PART I
http://www.apfn.net/pogo99/L001I080725-2008A.MP3AUDIO: PART II
http://www.apfn.net/pogo99/L002I080725-2603B.MP3AUDIO: PART III
http://www.apfn.net/pogo99/L003I080725-1308C.MP3=======================
C-SPAN: Limits of Executive Power (Impeachment)
There Are NO Statutes of Limitations on MURDER
YOUTUBE:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kDzJ1lffu5ABush Administration's 935 Lies to Iraq War Part 1 of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz9Ew1UBBj0Bush Administration's 935 Lies to Iraq War 2 OF 3
YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQMmLiCScZ4Bush Aministration's 935 Lies to Iraq War Part 3 of 3
YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D81JxE20MRs&feature=relatedREF INFO AND LINKS:
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/leakgate.htmhttp://www.apfn.org/apfn/iraq_war.htm==============================================
935 Lies on the Way to a War
By Scott Horton
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/01/hbc-90002235MEDIA BLACKOUT OF THIS HEARING... NETWORK
Notes from the Non-Impeachment Hearings
OpEdNews, PA - Jul 27, 2008
... originally billed the hearing as "The Imperial
Presidency" and later milded down even that, to "Executive
Power and Its Constitutional Limitations. ...
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BACKGROUND: some time around Monday evening, June 9, there was a giddy moment when it seemed that justice was still possible in America. On the Friday before, the Senate Intelligence committee had issued their report condemning the Bush propaganda machine efforts to kick-start the Iraq War as intentional deception. As folks had been saying along Bush lied, Thousands Died. Impeach. And by that following Monday, Dennis Kucinich stood before the assembled might of the US Congress and read 35 different, verifiable, reasons George Bush could at last be removed from office. All across America millions of citizen finally exhaled our sighs of relief and waited for history to happen. And of course it didn't.
As planned. With Speaker Pelosi sternly disapproving and Steny Hoyer dutifully leading his majority away from the topic with all post haste, it turned out the Republican party were the ones who championed hearing for impeachment, hoping to easily out debate and embarrass Dem leadership. They actually pressed to have the thing heard right there, but it wound up in committee, presumably to die.
And so we waited through June, recurring calls to the Judiciary gave no clue that their stance on why impeachment should not be discussed and when challenged as ineffective against Bush, Conyers office would refer to the ousting of Alberto Gonzales, who was embarrassed out of office over the Attorney General firings. So true to the promise he made to Congress and to the American people, when Congress failed to act for more than 30 Days, on July 11th, Kucinich again introduced impeachment but this time focusing on one charge: the deceptions of imminent threat regarding Hussein in the fall of '02.
And somehow an amazing thing happened: on the 17th Conyers Judiciary Committee announced hearings. While the bombshell flashed through the online progressive community, it remained a non-starter for mainstream media. Unlike either the Nixon Hearings over Watergate or Clinton's BJ impeachment, no mainstream media outlet had plans to cover the hearing live for the public to decide. In fact when called in a July 24th survey of the major TV news networks, NBC backpedaled through 6, count 'em, 6 different viewer service reps who didn't even know who to ask to find out if the network was covering it. And the guy who answered the phone in the ABC national news newsroom, not only had not heard about the hearings and but did not even know how to check on the Judiciary committee's schedule of upcoming hearings. When finally guided to the public notice, he grudgingly allowed they'd "do something on it, I'm sure," and hug up.
Of course not wanting to draw too much attention to the hearings in advance, the ever meek Conyers originally billed the hearing as "The Imperial Presidency" and later milded down even that, to "Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations." In fact when the hearings finally started after a good twenty minutes of live glad-handing, Conyers duly admonished the crowd they were not allowed to show any reaction to any statements made and both witnesses and committee members were neither allowed to speak of impeachment nor in the pejorative in general of the president or name him directly in any accusatory fashion.
A faux rule which easily fell to the wayside once the testimonies started. At first I was so dazzled by the fact that the hearings were even happening, that my wife and daughter and I got up early and gathered in front of the TV at 7am AZ time for the opening gavel on CSPAN and just stared open mouthed.
The line that eventually got me to realize I could be taking notes was, "Informed criticism, as annoying as it may be to those in positions of power, is the stuff of democracy"-Brad Miller D-NC in his opening remarks.
What follows is an attempt keep up live with the pace of the action over the nearly six hour hearing. I
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