Just curious, for you right wingers out there. Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury, essentially lying to cover up a BJ. Richard Nixon had articles of impeachment drawn for the Watergate coverup, now we have Scott McClelland saying that Bush, Cheney, Card, Rove and Libby lied to cover up what Bush Sr called an act of treason.
So what would Bush have to do that would, in your opinion, rise to the level of an impeachable offense?
Not that any of you have the stones to pony up a serious answer.
Bill Clinton wasn't impeached for getting the blow job, he was impeached for lying about it.
Hmmm...lying...hmmmm...
Oh, shucks...I can blame that on bad intelligence...yuk yuk yuk.
Mission accomplished!
an independent prosecutor who spent years investigating what he knew the first month.
There are coverups, and there are illegal coverups. I don't think the IP would have spent so much time just to indite(?sp) Libby if he could have indited Bush or Cheney.
Just remember: If the IP had quit when he knew the source of the information was Armitage, then there would have been no possibility of a cover-up. So, what was the IP going after? Hoping Bush or Cheney would slip up, and he could nail them.
What would it take? IMHO: Willfully disregarding the the rule of law for personal gain.
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Nice when a legal loophole allows you to lie thousands of people into the grave (and millions into your pockets!).
If you are talking about perjury, one of them would have to lie under oath. I don’t think that is going to happen to the main players. False and misleading statements and possibly perjury is carried out by their subordinates who seem to take the rap rather than roll over on their bosses.
your spelling is phonetic.
When transparency goes, so does democracy. Is democracy survivable? Do we even want it?
It seems to me that democracy probably depends on self-reliant, informed people, and a certain level of economic prosperity. None of that seems terribly popular, but then, it also depends on people willing to fight back against forces and even habits that threaten democracy.
A good example of having one of your subordinates take the rap would have been if Janet Reno took the rap for Clinton. She could have said it was her, not Clinton who was involved with Monica. She could have testified that Monica sucked her dick in the room off the Oval Office. BTW the reason Chelsea Clinton is so fucking ugly is because Janet Reno is her father.