Home > Failure to impeach Bush a dereliction of duty
My heart received a modest lift when I spotted your March 17 article on Page A5 noting that consensus among Americans is growing that the President deserves congressional censure for his clandestine acts of domestic espionage.
That would be a very gratifying development, but hardly the most appropriate denouement.
My heart would be lifted much higher were I to read that Congress had finally decided to do its duty and impeach the President on the charge of violating the federal statutes, which evidence indicates he did.
That is the way the business of our nation should honorably proceed. Why should anyone be considered above personal consequence in a country which cherishes the rule of law, least of all that person most highly placed by its constitution to safeguard and execute those laws, which are nothing less than the collective formal expression of our national aspirations and of our carefully pondered intentions?
It would amount to a shameful civic hypocrisy if we, so proud of our freedoms, were to dither on the point of prosecuting such a flagrant violation of them.
The founding fathers were very clear on the matter that presidents are not kings, and that it is the sworn obligation of the legislative branch to rein in and punish rogue actions by the executive; that not to do so would itself constitute an opprobrious act of public disservice, a cowardly dereliction of duty.
JOSEPH CRANNEY
Albany
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6 April 2006, 04:04
What happened 9/11 is not as it seems and I’ll leave it at that.
Bush should be tried for High Crimes and misdemeanors. What happened to the Twin Towers
had been in the planning stages for years. I invite anyone to visit Tim McNiven, a U.S. Federal
Agents website at http://www.codenamegrillfire.com/index.php?n=1&id=1. It will open your eyes
about how our Federal Government has operated for years including players in our current administration.
The PNAC is a neo-conservative think-tank that promotes an ideology of total U.S. world domination through the use of force. The group embraces and disseminates an ideology of faith in force, U.S. supremacy, and rejection of the rule of law in international affairs.
The group’s core ideas are expressed in a September 2000 report produced for Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, and Lewis Libby entitled Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century. The Sunday Herald referred to the report as a "blueprint for U.S. world domination."