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Sunday, April 01, 2007

Impeachment For RICO Violations?

Some time ago, I remarked in my usual smarmy way that if the President were to be impeached, it might very well be under the provisions of the RICO act.

The Administration is becoming very embarrassing in their inability to recall salient points. It is beginning to remind me of all those televised hearings we used to see- a long time ago before any of you were born and which we no longer have, for the obvious reason that we wiped out crime a long time ago also.

The Kefauver hearings were the first I remember. Guys with their fedoras and mouthpieces, being grilled in a Capitol room, sweating, fidgeting, and swearing they could not recall....

Fast forwarding to the present, Mr. I. Lewis Libby, aka Scooter, could not recall. Alberto Gonzalez can not recall. And now:  
Panel Asks Rove for Information on '08 Election Presentation  
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/29/AR2007032901962_pf.html  
"The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sought more information yesterday about a presentation by a White House aide given to political appointees at the General Services Administration that discussed targeting 20 Democratic congressional candidates in the next election." "...Waxman said the presentation and follow-up remarks allegedly made by agency chief Lurita Alexis Doan may have violated the Hatch Act, a law that restricts federal agencies and employees from using their positions for political purposes." "During the hearing, Doan said at least 10 times that she does not recall asking employees to help the GOP or does not recall details about the presentation.

This may explain what happened to the WMDs.

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