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Review of 'Case for
Impeachment' By
Peter Dyer
September 13, 2006 |
Editor's Note: Below is Peter
Dyer's review of “The
Case for Impeachment: the Legal Argument for Removing President George
W. Bush from Office” by Dave Lindorff and Barbara Olshansky:
Even though
in the United States there is a fast-growing grassroots movement to
impeach President Bush there has been predictably little response in the
Republican-controlled Congress. If, however, the Democrats gain control
of Congress as a result of the November midterm elections, a
congressional impeachment effort will become considerably more likely.
David Lindorff, author and
prominent investigative journalist, and Barbara Olshanksy, attorney and
deputy director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, have written a
book which could show the way: “The Case for Impeachment: the Legal
Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office”. (Thomas
Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, New York) The authors’ purpose is “to
try to lay out for examination the vast range of presidential crimes,
abuses of power, and threats to the Constitution and to the Republic”
The authors have collected
and documented in methodical and convincing detail some of the
President's most prominent impeachable offenses: lying to start an
illegal war; the arrest and detention without charge of American
citizens; violation of international treaties including the Geneva
Conventions and the conventions against torture; willfully ignoring or
violating acts of Congress by issuing hundreds of “signing statements”;
violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Fourth
Amendment to the Constitution and others.
These offenses are disturbing
enough individually, but in their aggregate they demonstrate an
appalling and outrageous pattern of contemptuous disregard for national
and international law on the part of the very person charged with
preserving, protecting and defending the law.
The authors also provide a
valuable historical and legal perspective of the impeachment process and
make a compelling case for the impeachment, as well, of Vice President
Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Rice and
Attorney General Gonzales.
Although today impeachment
still seems unlikely, if that changes, then “A Case for Impeachment”
will be a valuable guide. And in the end it may very well prove to be
prophetic.
Peter Dyer is a machinist who moved with his wife from California to
New Zealand in 2004. He can be reached at
[email protected] .
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