"False Statements Accountability Act of 1996" [View All]

[pnorman]

I hadn't been as excited as many others here, at the idea of IMPEACHING the President. Obviously, it won't get anywhere under the present set-up in Congress, and it seemed like useless windmill tilting. But I'd almost forgotten the above mentioned law. For a fib to a government investigator, Martha Stewart went to the slammer.

Here's what Rep. Conyers is getting at:
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If the evidence revealed by the Downing Street Memo is true, then the President’s submission of his March 18, 2003 letter and report to the United States Congress would violate federal criminal law, including: the federal anti-conspiracy statute, 18 U.S.C. § 371, which makes it a felony “to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose...”; and The False Statements Accountability Act of 1996, 18 U.S.C. § 1001, which makes it a felony to issue knowingly and willfully false statements to the United States Congress.
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http://rawstory.com/exclusives/alexandrovna/memo_bush_impeachable_offenses_526

It's realy quite simple, and here's Bush's ONLY alibi: EVERYTHING he's said since he's been in office could be termed "electioneering", and thereby be considered Free Speech. I'd LOVE to hear his supporters say that!

Just keep hammering at this. In due time, and as Iraq and the economy further unravels, it'll begin to SINK IN.

pnorman
Edited to include my favorite quote: "When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before." (Jacob Riis)