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Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction:
Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?
By JOHN W. DEAN, Findlaw.com, 06/06/05
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030606.html
To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked. Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be "a high crime" under the Constitution's impeachment clause. It would also be a violation of federal criminal law, including the broad federal anti-conspiracy statute, which renders it a felony "to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose."
It's important to recall that when Richard Nixon resigned, he was about to be impeached by the House of Representatives for misusing the CIA and FBI. After Watergate, all presidents are on notice that manipulating or misusing any agency of the executive branch improperly is a serious abuse of presidential power.
Nixon claimed that his misuses of the federal agencies for his political purposes were in the interest of national security. The same kind of thinking might lead a President to manipulate and misuse national security agencies or their intelligence to create a phony reason to lead the nation into a politically desirable war. Let us hope that is not the case.
John Dean, a FindLaw columnist, is a former Counsel to the President of the United States.
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Trial by Jury - "For more than six hundred years-- that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215-- there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law, than that: in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what was the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their right, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of such laws."
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Leak-Gate Part 1
Flash Player
http://www.apfn.org/flash/leakgate1.swf
The Smoking Gun: The Downing Street Memo (Minutes)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/memo.html
IMPEACHMENT TIME: "FACTS WERE FIXED."
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/leakgate_impeachment.htm
Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 (50 U.S.C. 421 et seq.)
(governing disclosures that could expose confidential Government agents)
http://foi.missouri.edu/bushinfopolicies/protection.html
White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales sent a notice Friday to all White House employees instructing them to turn in copies of numerous documents for the ongoing probe into who leaked the name of a CIA operative to a newspaper columnist.
http://www.apfn.org/LEAK-GATE/notice.htm
From top advisers to junior staff, nearly 2,000 White House employees were ordered to come forward by Tuesday with any documents that might help the criminal investigation into the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity.
http://www.apfn.org/LEAK-GATE/clues.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/iraq_report.htm
29 May 2003 : the government's now infamous Dossier entitled Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government, which was released in September 2002 (the report previous to the one mentioned above),
is available in PDF format here
( http://www.apfn.org/pdf/WMD-dossier.pdf )
Biography
Ibrahim al-Marashi is a lecturer in Middle Eastern politics at the Naval Postgraduate School, as well as an analyst at the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies, in Monterey.
Al-Marashi received an M.A. in Political Science from Georgetown in 1997, and is currently finishing a Ph.D. at the University of Oxford, on Iraq's intelligence agencies. He has a B.A. in History from the University of California Los Angeles. Prior to joining NPS, al-Marashi worked at the Iran-Iraq Affairs Office at the U.S. State Department and served in the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Al-Marashi is the author of the Middle East Review of International Affairs article, "Iraq's Security and Intelligence Network: A Guide and Analysis" * http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/people/al-marashi.asp
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/iraq_report.htm
Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?
By JOHN W. DEAN, Findlaw.com, 06/06/05
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030606.html
To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked. Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be "a high crime" under the Constitution's impeachment clause. It would also be a violation of federal criminal law, including the broad federal anti-conspiracy statute, which renders it a felony "to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose."
It's important to recall that when Richard Nixon resigned, he was about to be impeached by the House of Representatives for misusing the CIA and FBI. After Watergate, all presidents are on notice that manipulating or misusing any agency of the executive branch improperly is a serious abuse of presidential power.
Nixon claimed that his misuses of the federal agencies for his political purposes were in the interest of national security. The same kind of thinking might lead a President to manipulate and misuse national security agencies or their intelligence to create a phony reason to lead the nation into a politically desirable war. Let us hope that is not the case.
John Dean, a FindLaw columnist, is a former Counsel to the President of the United States.
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Trial by Jury - "For more than six hundred years-- that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215-- there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law, than that: in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what was the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their right, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of such laws."
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Leak-Gate Part 1
Flash Player
http://www.apfn.org/flash/leakgate1.swf
The Smoking Gun: The Downing Street Memo (Minutes)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/memo.html
IMPEACHMENT TIME: "FACTS WERE FIXED."
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/leakgate_impeachment.htm
Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 (50 U.S.C. 421 et seq.)
(governing disclosures that could expose confidential Government agents)
http://foi.missouri.edu/bushinfopolicies/protection.html
White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales sent a notice Friday to all White House employees instructing them to turn in copies of numerous documents for the ongoing probe into who leaked the name of a CIA operative to a newspaper columnist.
http://www.apfn.org/LEAK-GATE/notice.htm
From top advisers to junior staff, nearly 2,000 White House employees were ordered to come forward by Tuesday with any documents that might help the criminal investigation into the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity.
http://www.apfn.org/LEAK-GATE/clues.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/iraq_report.htm
29 May 2003 : the government's now infamous Dossier entitled Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government, which was released in September 2002 (the report previous to the one mentioned above),
is available in PDF format here
( http://www.apfn.org/pdf/WMD-dossier.pdf )
Biography
Ibrahim al-Marashi is a lecturer in Middle Eastern politics at the Naval Postgraduate School, as well as an analyst at the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies, in Monterey.
Al-Marashi received an M.A. in Political Science from Georgetown in 1997, and is currently finishing a Ph.D. at the University of Oxford, on Iraq's intelligence agencies. He has a B.A. in History from the University of California Los Angeles. Prior to joining NPS, al-Marashi worked at the Iran-Iraq Affairs Office at the U.S. State Department and served in the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Al-Marashi is the author of the Middle East Review of International Affairs article, "Iraq's Security and Intelligence Network: A Guide and Analysis" * http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/people/al-marashi.asp
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/iraq_report.htm
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