More Misc Article About Impeachment Process

April 21
Attention: F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.
Since you're the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, I figure you must be the appropriate person to address this to.I have another piece of evidence to go into your articles of impeachment against George Bush and Dick Cheney:

"Drumheller, who retired [from the CIA] last year, says the White House ignored crucial information from a high and credible source. The source was Iraq's foreign minister, Naji Sabri, with whom U.S. spies had made a deal."When CIA Director George Tenet delivered this news to the president, the vice president and other high ranking officials, they were excited — but not for long."'[The source] told us that there were no active weapons of mass destruction programs," says [former CIA analyst] Drumheller. 'The [White House] group that was dealing with preparation for the Iraq war came back and said they were no longer interested. And we said 'Well, what about the intel?' And they said 'Well, this isn't about intel anymore. This is about regime change.'"There's nothing particularly earth-shattering here, except perhaps for the question of who exactly made up the "they" that blew this source off in such a manner. But it ought to serve well enough as another nail in the House's indictment of this criminal administration.This may also be an appropriate time for the last few people who still believe they weren't deliberately lied into war to go ahead and take the opportunity to snap out of it.
Posted by: Scott Horton
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Impending impeachment?
The March town meeting resolutions calling for Bush’s impeachment got plenty of media attention at the time. Apparently, they were not just a flash in the political pan.

A half dozen towns passed resolutions, followed by, at last count, at least eight Democratic county committees. The state Democratic Party Committee has also endorsed a measure that asks the Republican-controlled U.S. House to pass articles of impeachment against Bush for misleading the nation on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and engaging in illegal wiretapping, among other charges.

Democratic state committees in Wisconsin, New Mexico, Nevada, and North Carolina have taken similar steps, and Californians are next in line.

In Vermont, it’s not just Democrats, either. A Republican hopeful in the primary for the state’s lone U.S. House seat, Dennis Morrisseau, says he believes the first act of a new Congress should be to draw up articles of impeachment.

On May 1, Vermont’s effort moves to the nation’s capital. That’s when Vermonters plan to hand deliver their petitions to the state’s congressional delegation, who are not enthusiastic about impeachment, but support possible censure. That’s not stopping this merry band of impeachers, though.

Dan DeWalt, the activist selectman from Newfane who got the impeachment ball rolling in Vermont, says the goal is to keep the issue at eye level for Democrats in the hope that this year’s mid-term elections give them the muscle to be able to do something significant in November. DeWalt would like to see the impeachment question occupy enough of Pres. Bush’s attention that it distracts or deters him from bombing Iran.
DeWalt says the impeachment effort is aimed at shooting enough holes in Bush’s ship of state “so that the rats will start jumping off.”

Perhaps May Day 2006 will be the distress call more will hear.
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April 22
http://www.impeachpac.org/resolutions
...Most recently, and most encouragingly, state legislatures have begun introducing articles of impeachment to be sent to the House of Representatives against George W. Bush. Now that's revolutionary....
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Impeachment From Below: Legislators Lobby Congress
Inside the Beltway, legislators have been slow to support moves to censure or impeach President Bush and other members of the administration. Only 33 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed on as cosponsors of Congressman John Conyers' resolution calling for the creation of a select committee to investigate the administration's preparations for war before receiving congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and countenancing of torture, and retaliation against critics such as former Ambassador Joe Wilson, with an eye toward making recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment. Only two members of the Senate have agreed to cosponsor Senator Russ Feingold's proposal to censure the president for illegally ordering the warrantless wiretapping of phone conversations of Americans.

Outside the Beltway, legislators are far more comfortable with censure and impeachment -- at least in the state of Vermont. Sixty-nine Vermont legislators, 56 members of the state House and 14 members of the Senate, have signed a letter urging Congress to initiate investigations to determine if censure or impeachment of members of the administration might be necessary.

The letter, penned by state Rep. Richard Marek, a Democrat from Newfane, where voters made international news in March by calling for the impeachment of Bush at their annual town meeting, suggests that Bush's manipulations of intelligence prior to the launch of the Iraq war, his support of illegal domestic surveillance programs and other actions have created a circumstance where Congress needs to determine whether the time has come for "setting in motion the constitutional process for possible removal from office."

Noting that Newfane and a half dozen other Vermont communities have called for impeachment, as has the state Democratic Party, Marek explained to the Rutland Herald, "Vermonters from across the state have expressed concerns with the president's actions and have displayed that through resolutions, meetings and petitions. I thought it was important to put our voices down as supporting an investigation and possible censure and impeachment."

The letter, which will be delivered to members of the state's Congressional delegation -- including Congressman Bernie Sanders, a cosponsor of the Sanders resolution -- is just one of a number of fresh impeachment-related initiatives in Vermont.

Representative David Zuckerman, a Burlington legislator who is a member of Vermont's Progressive Party, plans to introduce a resolution next week asking for the state legislature to call on the U.S. House to open impeachment hearings.

Parliamentary procedures developed by then Vice President Thomas Jefferson in the early years of the United States, and still used by the U.S. House of Representatives as a supplement to that chamber's standing rules, have been interpreted as giving state legislatures at least some authority to trigger impeachment proceedings, and Zuckerman's resolution responds to calls from Vermonters to take the dramatic step.

Several county Democratic parties in Vermont have urged the state legislature to take advantage of the opening created by "Jefferson's Manual," which suggests that impeachment proceedings can be provoked "by charges transmitted from the legislature of a state.

There's no question that Vermont is in the lead, but legislators in other states are also exploring their options for pressuring Congress to act on articles of impeachment. A trio of Democratic state representatives in Illinois -- Karen A. Yarbrough and Sara Feigenholtz from the Chicago area and Eddie Washington from Waukegan -- have introduced a measure similar to the one Zuckerman is preparing in Vermont.

The bill urges the Illinois General Assembly to "submit charges to the U. S. House of Representatives to initiate impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States, George W. Bush, for willfully violating his Oath of Office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and if found guilty urges his removal from office and disqualification to hold any other office in the United States."

In Pennsylvania, State Senator Jim Ferlo, D-Pittsburgh, has launched a public campaign urging his constituents to sign petitions calling for Congress to launch an impeachment inquiry. Ferlo, a former Pittsburgh City Council president, says its entirely appropriate for state officials -- and citizens -- to add their voices to the impeachment debate.

"Impeachment proceedings are now the most important issue facing our nation," the state senator explains. "The debate and opinions expressed should not be limited to the views of journalists, legal scholars, intelligence officials and just a few politicians. Every American must confront this issue and speak out loudly and clearly. This is one opportunity to do so."