Legal expert: White House stonewalling may force Congress to charge president with criminal offenses

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David Edwards and Muriel Kane

[…] Olbermann then turned to law professor Joanathan Turley, who agreed tentatively that the administration might move slowly enough to “run out the clock” on its time in office. “But there is one thing that might concern them about the court,” Turley said, “and that is, you know, for many years, since we first found out about this program, some of us have said that this was a clearly criminal act that the president called for. … If we’re right, not only did he order that crime, but it would be, in fact, an impeachable offense.”

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