THE BUSH /CHENEY DICKTATORSHIP : NIXON ON STEROIDS (PART ONE)

Here were some of the charges proffered by the US House Judiciary Committee against President Richard Nixon in July 1974 . Accompanying that charge is a similar and often far greater act of presidential malfeasance committed by those two untouchables , President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney ....... 1 ) From Article One 1974 : making false or misleading statements to lawfully authorised investigative officers... of the United States / 2006 : Cheney made false and misleading statements to Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald during a taped deposition taken in May of 2004 ...... 2) 1974 : withholding relevant and material evidence from a lawfully authorised investigation / 2006: Cheney has withheld 250 incriminating E-mails from Special Counsel Fitzgerald ..... 3 ) 1974 : interfering with the conduct of the investigations (of Watergate) conducted by the Justice Dept , Office of Special Prosecutor and FBI. / 2006 : Bush spiked a probe of Jack Abramoff in 2002 by firing the US Attorney for Guam , days after he began issuings subpoenas to targets. The probe died ...... 4 ) 1974 : Approving the surreptitious payment of money for the purpose of obtaining the silence or influencing the testimony of witnesses / 2006 : Hush money has been replaced in the Bush/Cheney precedent by a) the promiscous payment of bonuses to witnesses and prosecutors or b ) the rewarding of promotions and appointment to high office of witnesses, the spouses of witnesess and prosectors in the Abramoff , Plame , and AIPAC probes..... 5 ) 1974 : endeavouring to misuse the CIA / 2006 : Bush and Cheney improperly pressured CIA to incorporate intelligence hoaxes into their work product to use that agency as instruments of their campaign to inveigle the support of the American people for their unique bit of madness , OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM . Agents of the CIA have been authorised to kidnap , and torture "enemy combatants" in gulags built by contractors of the CIA. ..... 6 ) 1974 : Making or causing to be made false or misleading statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States into believing a proper investigation of the Watergate Affair was taking place / 2006 : making or causing to be made false or misleading statements that Iraq posessed a vast cache of WMD and therefore constituted an "grave and immediate threat" to the people of the United States