Here are excerpts from the three articles
of impeachment against President Nixon that were approved by the House
Committee on the Judiciary in July 1974. Compare and extrapolate
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ARTICLE I, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE (Approved 27-11)
In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard
M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute
the office of President of the United States, and, to the best of his
ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United
States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that
the laws be faithfully executed, has prevented, obstructed and impeded
the administration of justice, in that:
On June 17, 1972, and prior thereto, agents of the Committee for the
Re-election of the President:
Committed unlawful entry of the headquarters of the Democratic National
Committee in Washington, District of Columbia, for the purpose of
securing political intelligence. Subsequent thereto, Richard M. Nixon,
using the powers of his high office, engaged personally and through his
subordinates and agents in a course of conduct or plan designed to
delay, impede, and obstruct the investigation of such unlawful entry;
to cover up, conceal and protect those responsible; and to conceal the
existence and scope of other unlawful covert activities. ...
Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and
trial, and removal from office.
ARTICLE II, ABUSE OF POWER. (Approved 28-10)
Using the powers of the office of President of the United States,
Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to
execute the office of President of the United States, and to the best
of his ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the
United States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care
that the laws be faithfully executed, has repeatedly engaged in conduct
violating the constitutional rights of citizens, impairing the due and
proper administration of justice in the conduct of lawful inquiries, of
contravening the law of governing agencies of the executive branch and
the purposes of these agencies. ...
ARTICLE III, DEFIANCE OF SUBPOENAS. (Approved 21-17)
In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard
M. Nixon, contrary to his oath faithfully to execute the office of
President of the United States and, to the best of his ability,
preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States,
and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws
be faithfully executed, has failed without lawful cause or excuse to
produce papers and things as directed by duly authorized subpoenas
issued by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of
Representatives on April 11, 1974, May 15, 1974, May 30, 1974, and June
24, 1974, and willfully disobeyed such subpoenas. ...
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No impeachment yet. Form Select Committees to gather evidence, build a case, wait until after elections to score points. For now, go after Uhbama hires, like Lerner, czars and others who are not protected Constitutionally.
ReplyDeleteIf the Reps go for impeachment now, it will give the Left and LIVs a focus to yell racism, partisanship, etc. Stick to issues, not people, that have right now real time effects on Joe Plumber - IRS, VA, Benghazi, NSA, unemployment.
Don't let the Dems disassociate themselves from Uhbama. Impeachment gives them a chance to do that; the issues they voted for and he executed do not.
First win the 2014 elections, then go medieval on the bastards.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick
that would be good advice Tailgunner if impeachment was a possibility. However the repussyicans won't do a darned thing about this.
ReplyDeleteIf I've read the news right, I believe the same hard drive was lost AND thrown away AND recycled. It's just magic, I guess.
ReplyDeleteI was not aware that Sandy Burgler had gone into the IT business. Any half rate IT Mgr knows it would be near impossible to make that data go away. After all, everything we do is being watched. -Anymouse
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I just don't see impeachment happening. Too many Republicans are still afraid of the race card and the and the baiters will threaten to burn down the cities if anything threatens TheFirstBlackPresident from getting his 60-foot statue on the Mall (I'm betting they'll wait to put up a dual statues of TheOne and Hillarybeast arm-in-arm overlooking Lincoln).
ReplyDeleteI expect some 'arrangement' to be made where he'll quietly back down on a bunch of his final executive orders or EPA/DOJ mandates to keep his name clean for the history books.
Whatever was done to Lerner's computer, the e-mails weren't destroyed. Not on her computer, at any rate.
ReplyDeleteIf you read your e-mail on your computer, the e-mail doesn't eminate from there. Drop your computer into the ocean, and you can still read the e-mail. You can just go to your internet service provider, enter your user name and password, and voila! There are your e-mails. All of them. From a long time ago.
That's in part how government, including IRS computers, hold e-mails. Not just the computers, but the servers, have the e-mails. And, because it's the government, and there are laws about maintaining all communications, the e-mails are also in other safe storage places.
IRS isn't fooling anyone except some lowinfo types who want to be fooled. And, if somehow those e-mails were deleted from the servers and other storage locations, that adds to the list of crimes these people have committed. Tampering with evidence, interfering with an investigation, and many other crimes are involved. on the federal level, tampering can be good for 20 years in prison by the way.
The house controls the purse strings--cut off all funding for the IRS until they produce the emails.
ReplyDeleteNSA should have everything.
ReplyDeleteThis is truly a Beckian duct tape moment.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone out there believes the crap about those hard dries being destroyed, then I have a bridge over the Columbia River on I-5 I would like to sell or lease to you for a great price.
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