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<\/a>Nick Juliano, rawstory.com<\/p>\n

A former top State Department aide to Colin Powell said today that President Bush and Vice President Cheney are more deserving of impeachment than was Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, said on the public radio program On Point<\/a> Thursday that “Bill Clinton’s peccadilloes … pale in significance” when compared to the “high crimes and misdemeanors” of Bush and Cheney.<\/p>\n

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Nick Juliano, rawstory.com A former top State Department aide to Colin Powell said today that President Bush and Vice President Cheney are more deserving of impeachment than was Bill Clinton. Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, said on the public radio program On Point Thursday that “Bill Clinton’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-news"],"yoast_head":"\nEx-Powell aide says Bush, Cheney guilty of 'high crimes' • Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen's impeach strategy. 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