TELL CONGRESS IT'S TIME TO IMPEACH GONZALES

[Demeter]

IMPEACH Gonzales and the Rest Will Follow

The White House has ordered the Justice Department not to prosecute
contempt charges against any of its operatives who it had also
ordered not to testify in the first place.

Gonzales who HAS testified has told so many different stories that
were he not himself the attorney general he would be facing perjury
charges right now.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/impeach_gonzales.php

But of course even if he were convicted he would instantly be
commuted or pardoned as was Scooter Libby. There is one and only one
constitutional recourse left and that is impeachment. The appeal
courts have already been stacked with right wing judges and they will
not intervene. The solicitor general will not appoint a special
counsel. Only through impeachment can Congress demand a return to
integrity.

On Tuesday, July 31st, Jay Inslee proposed that the Judiciary
Committee pursue the possible impeachment of Alberto Gonzales, who
tried to browbeat a semi-conscious John Ashcroft into signing off on
a patently illegal spying program, who was the point man in doing a
legal end run around the laws against torture, who let the White
House dictate which U.S. attorneys were not sufficiently partisan in
their prosecutions, and who then lied repeatedly under oath about it
all.

In today's Time magazine online article they examined the reasons
Bush still has not dumped such an outright embarrassment of an
attorney general, and the number one reason they cited was that "Bush
needs someone at Justice who's going to watch the White House's
back." Of course this is precisely the reason he must be impeached
immediately. If his only purpose is to shield the Cheney White House
from investigation and exposure of their own crimes he's the first
one who has to go.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/impeach_gonzales.php

For those focused on impeaching Cheney and Bush we suggest this is
not a distraction. Instead it could be an important strategic
icebreaker. To just get the word "impeachment" past the lips of some
members of Congress has been a major struggle. But our numbers are
building fast, and once the dam breaks, it'll be Katy bar the door to
the oval office.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

[vixengrl]

1. Here's what I told my congress-folk:

The discrepancies in the narrative of Mr. Gonzales strongly suggest that he is not being truthful, and if an intelligent person in the position of Attorney General of the United States has taken it upon himself to deliver something short of the truth, or to provide mistruths: intentionally deceptive words, it is certain that there is a purpose behind such deception, for it surely would not have been considered lightly.

The deception alone is grave; what lays behind it is also disturbing, because the right to privacy and the presumption that one's private conversations and personal business are not invaded except where warrants are issued, are at the core of the deception. A very dubious policy was set in motion by this administration, secretly, and the White House has taken great pains to prevent discovery of this violation--to what purpose?

A dubious one--for it is not likely to ensure our safety (Terrorists, for example, being likely to take evasive measures), and is certain to violate our rights.

Any information obtained without warrant seems likely to have been obtained without legitimate reasonable cause--it is, as they say, "poisoned fruit." The obtaining thereof speaks of prejudice. The basic need for a warrant is a test of the validity of the search.

Gonzales should know that as a student of the law. He should also be aware of the great irregularities in the management of the DOJ, and the surprising irregularity of the politically-motivated (not based on cause) firings of the US attorneys which sparked this investigation. That the Justice Department has been greatly politicized is not a crime in and of itself--but it is a violation of what the aim of the department should be--Lady Justice's blindness is not an affliction, but a gift. It is AG's Gonzales' blindness, in failing to be open with the Congress in his testimony, which is an affliction, but one whose cure is known.

I feel that impeachment is warranted in this matter. Under his watch, the reputation of our nation has been blackened by the acceptance of torture, rendition, our denial of habeas corpus and unlawful surveillance. The firings of the US Attorneys in question suggest also politically-motivated prosecutions, and the halting of other prosecutions for political reasons. He has not spoken well for himself, and perhaps can not.

Ours is a nations of laws, not men, and the Constitution is no mere piece of paper, but our birthright. That document gives us redress against government officials who have committed high crimes and misdemeanors in the form of impeachment--it is also a gift, to be used against those who show disregard for our laws. There is no pardon in the case of impeachment; it is a strong statement, but one which is needed.

[provis99]

2. yeah, nice and all, but seriously. He is not going to be impeached.

He'll be in there until Bush leaves office in 2009. Impeachment is an irrelevant part of the Constitution, as outdated in the modern age as the 3rd Amendment.