Another Impeachable Offense
By authorizing the kidnapping, disappearing, and perhaps even the torturing of detainees, Bush was violating the Geneva Conventions and the Treaty Against Torture.
Add that to his lies about the Iraq War, to his illegal spying on American citizens, and to his signing statements, and the case for at least bringing impeachment proceedings forward could not be stronger.
But the Democratic leadership in the House shows no appetite for doing so. Nancy Pelosi announced before the election that impeachment was “off the table.” And John Conyers, who had introduced a bill to explore grounds for impeachment and would now be in a position to pursue it as putative head of the Judiciary Committee, has suddenly come down with a bad case of laryngitis.
Matthew Rothschild | The Progressive