Dems Tap Patrick Fitzgerald for Impeachment Probe (Tinfoil hat or not?)

[jefferson_dem]

:tinfoilhat:?

This story comes from a hardcore rw yellow journalistic rag famous for wacky conjecture. Obvoiusly, the info in the story does not quite measure up to the lede. Even still, we could only hope it's true... >

Dems Tap Patrick Fitzgerald for Impeachment Probe

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are so pleased with reports that Leakgate prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is about to indict senior White House officials that they want him to lead an impeachment investigation into whether President Bush lied to Congress about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

"The CIA leak issue is only the tip of the iceberg,” House Judiciary Democrat Jerrold Nadler complains in a message posted to his web site.

In a letter asking the Justice Department to expand the scope of Fitzgerald's investigation, Nadler says: "We now have reason to believe that high crimes may have been committed at the highest level wrongdoing that may have led us to war and imperiled our national security.”

If there is evidence that Bush or Cheney authorized aides to deliberately mislead lawmakers, Nadler told Congressional Quarterly: "That would be an impeachable offense.'"

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/22/234208.shtml

[napi21]

1. Cute idea, but there has to be a majority vote in the House before

anyone can begin impeachment investigations. Who would fund it?

Interesting this appeared on a RW site though.

[savemefromdumbya]

4. there may not be many Republicans left at this rate

who knows what else lurks in the Republican congress. DeLay = tip of iceberg.

[blm]

2. This is part of their plan to make Fitz sound like a political hack acting

out of a partisan agenda.

Remember they did this same thing to Wilson and most broadcast media let the GOP operatives have full sway with their charge against Wilson as a political campaign hack working for Kerry.

[janx]

3. Yep. That's exactly what's going on here.

It's very weak.

[jefferson_dem]

5. Agreed. Could be the opening salvos in an effort to discredit Fitz.

We've heard more of this these past couple days. As the reality of indictments smacks them right between the eyes, we should expect more of the "perjury's just a technicality" + "this is just the criminalization of politics" defense.

Weak for sure.

[napi21]

7. I could be, but then they'd all have to admit they were wrong all along!

All tthe Pubs, even Shrub, have said Fitz is a real professional and is conducting a very thorough investigation.

Since it seemed to be all of THEM who were the subject of this investigation, how could they now say...Opps! we didn't realize how patisan he was and he didn't really look hard enough into the facts?

Oh, I'm sure they'd all love to discredit Fits. I just don't think it's gonna work!

[bemildred]

6. I'm sure they send all their "secret" plans to NewsMax. nt