- 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.
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- "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.
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- 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
[and] wrongdoing that may have led us to war and imperiled our national
security."
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- 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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- The Manhattan Democrat is asking Acting Deputy Attorney
General Robert McCallum to direct Fitzgerald to probe efforts by the White
House to discredit critics of the Iraq war like former Ambassador Joe Wilson.
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- Nadler wants Fitzgerald to determine whether attacks
on Wilson were part of a "broader conspiracy knowingly to mislead
Congress into authorizing a war."
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- Even before leaks from Fitzgerald's investigation indicated
he planned indictments, Rep. Maurice Hinchey let slip the Democrats' plan
to impeach Bush for alleged Iraq war lies.
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- In quotes picked up by the Ithaca Journal, Hinchey said
in August: "My greatest hope is that all of these things will be revealed,
they will be revealed in a very direct and legal context, and that in 2006
a Democratic majority will be elected to the House of Representatives,
and in February of [2007] impeachment proceedings will begin."
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- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/22/234208.shtml
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