Passes 238-180, 10 Republicans Abstain
An unidentified government official of a U.S. ally wants to participate if and when Kucinich makes his case to impeach President Bush before the House Judiciary Committee.There will be a hearing related to Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s Article of Impeachment against George Bush in the House Judiciary Committee. That was assured by […]

A new book chronicles the early days after the 9/11 attacks, when Dick Cheney was always reported to be hiding in an underground bunker or a bomb shelter or an orbiting space capsule. Turns out extreme paranoia really did take hold of the vice president.
On Oct. 18, 2001, a White House alarm went off indicating […]

When the Democrats regained control of the House in 2006, the new Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, famously took the impeachment of George Bush “off the table.” This puzzled and disappointed millions of people who rightly wondered why a president could be impeached over a sex lie in 1999 but not over a lie just four years […]

7:58 a.m.: Well, not so much “at this hour,” as C-SPAN suggested. After 40 minutes of “morning business,” the House is debating AMTRAK. Either C-SPAN was wrong or the schedule was altered a bit. I suspect it was the latter.
In the meantime, here’s a bit from CQ Politics on the politics of Kucinich’s impeachment effort:
Under […]

Last night we watched two hours of the official reading into the congressional record of Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s motion to impeach President George Bush on C-SPAN. Unfortunately, I couldn’t stay up for the whole thing, which apparently took Kucinich nearly five hours to read on Monday, but I did last through four tag-team readers.
In […]

The latest revelation from Scott McClellan’s book proves what has long been suspected: Despite earlier statements professing ignorance about the conspiracy among his top officials, including Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, to betray a covert CIA program tracking the international black market for weapons of mass destruction, Bush knew about it all […]

George Bush’s confirmation Friday that he authorized top officials in his administration to create torture guidelines for the CIA — in violation of U.S. and international law — has prompted the ACLU to call on Congress to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate the officials’ authorization of torture:
“We have always known that the CIA’s […]

Suggests Cheney, Rice, Powell and Other White House Officials Committed War Crimes

Video above from MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” on Thursday, April 10. (See transcript below.)
In the 1990s, Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor and constitutional expert, was a strong advocate for impeaching Pres. Bill Clinton because Clinton lied about his relationship with […]

“Well, we started to connect the dots in order to protect the American people. And yes, I’m aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved,” George Bush said to ABC News White House correspondent Martha Raddatz late on Friday:
The big story on cable news today is the controversy over Obama saying […]