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The allegation that Iraq was trying to purchase uranium from Niger surfaced in a report by Italy's Military Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI). In the fall of 2001 a mysterious stranger offered to sell information about Iraq's efforts to regenerate its nuclear weapons program by obtaining uranium from Niger. Since Niger is the world's third most important country for the export of uranium, the Niger embassy in Rome provides a keyhole for snoops like the SISMI to peer into the world of nuclear proliferation. Despite strong reservations about the reliability of the documents by the Italian Foreign Ministry, the information was passed along to the British MI-6 liaison and later to the U.S.-CIA. The report from Italy was not given too much credence by the CIA since it was third-ha...
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For only the eighth time in history, the U.S. Senate convicted a federal judge of articles of impeachment, removing him from office. By a vote of 96-0 on Wednesday, senators convicted U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Porteous of the Eastern District of Louisiana of "high crimes and misdemeanors" for accepting bribes, lying in bankruptcy filings and concealing evidence from the Senate during his confirmation process.
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... of the Senate," Mason suggested "other high crimes and misdemeanors," which was adopted withou...
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President Obama has engaged in numerous high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democratic majority in Congress is in peril as Americans reject his agenda. Yet more must be done: Mr. Obama should be impeached. He is slowly - piece by painful piece - erecting a socialist dictatorship. We are not there - yet. But he is putting America on that dangerous path. He is undermining our constitutional system of checks and balances; subverting democratic procedures and the rule of law; presiding over a corrupt, gangster regime; and assaulting the very pillars of traditional capitalism. Like Venezuela's leftist strongman, Hugo Chavez, Mr. Obama is bent on imposing a revolution from above - one that is polarizing America along racial, political and ideological lines. Mr. Obama is the most divisive presid...
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IN general, we don't like recall elections, whether of a governor or a dogcatcher. There are certainly instances in which such an electoral tool would be called for - high crimes and misdemeanors that somehow fall short of automatic removal from office. Such instances are rare.
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It's become clear that [George W. Bush] and Co. intentionally misled the country into the war in Iraq. Bush and [Dick Cheney]'s Constitutional transgressions include exercising unchecked executive power, authorizing warrantless domestic wiretaps, ordering indefinite detention of American citizens without access to a lawyer, and defying congressional subpoenas. These unilateral moves have prompted even conservatives such as columnist Bruce Fein, who argued for Bush's impeachment earlier this month on Bill Moyers Journal, to warm to the idea. [Jim Lindley]: He's made it clear in the past he's hesitant to call for impeachment, but the actions of the last month of the administration-blatantly refusing to be accountable tc Congress, that executive privilege applies to everything-it's given C...
...When high crimes and misdemeanors have taken place, impeachm...
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..."--and may justifiably extend only to crimes that relate in a meaningful way to the crime of re..., or may states disenfranchise for misdemeanors as well? (Some states currently disenfranchise for..., those acts covered by Article II's "other high Crimes and misdemeanors" (131) differ from Article...
