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<\/a><\/p>\nHouse staffers in the office of Representative John Conyers (D-14-MI) and the offices of the House Judiciary Committee where Conyers is now Chairman both confirmed yesterday that the Democrats have taken any impeachment inquiry off the table despite recent revelations and court testimony that President Bush illegally took America to war in Iraq.<\/p>\n
When we asked a female staffer in Conyers’ office why the Chairman made the decision not to commence an impeachment inquiry regarding Mr. Bush’s war crimes involving facilitation of corporate war profiteering, manipulation of WMD pre-war evidence, torture of prisoners along with spying on emails and phone calls of Americans, “signing statements” to change the interpretation of laws, and failure to assist border patrolmen involved in shootouts with Mexican drug-runners, we were told “there will be no impeachment.” Our next phone call to the House Judiciary Committee office where all impeachment inquiries begin resulted in a statement that “there are no plans to begin an impeachment investigation of President Bush,” after which we were placed on hold to prevent further questions from being asked.<\/p>\n
Last week MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said “It is a federal crime to take the country to war for no reason at all,” but the Hardball host added that the Democrats probably won’t do anything about it. This, as grand jury testimony in the trial of Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff Lewis Scooter Libby revealed that President Bush authorized Cheney to have Libby leak information from the National Security assessment to reporters regarding weapons of mass destruction to help make a case for war. And despite strong evidence of criminal acts perpetrated by the Bush administration, Chairman Conyers and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have made the decision not to hold President Bush and Vice President Cheney accountable for their “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The important question is why?<\/p>\n