Archive for Impeachment
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Thursday 10th February 2011
Clinton’s Forgotten Dictatorial Tendencies
9:13 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Clinton | Congress | Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | FBI | Impeachment | Justice Department | Rule of Law | Secrecy | Surveillance | Wiretapping | dictatorship | Comments: 0
… posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation
Freedom Daily October 2010
Clinton’s Forgotten Dictatorial Tendencies
by James Bovard
It seems like a century since Bill Clinton was president of this country. Unfortunately, the abuses of George W. Bush and the pratfalls of Barack Obama are causing many people to raise their [...]
Tuesday 20th March 2007
Gonzales’s Fall, Bush’s Impeachment?
4:10 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Donlan | Impeachment | Rule of Law | Torture | Wiretapping | Comments: 20
Lew Rockwell suggested yesterday that I do a piece on the Gonzales meltdown and how it could affect Bush. Every now and then, I am not immune to good ideas, so I wrote it and he posted it on LewRockwell.com today.
I appreciate all the comments I received on the Gonzales blog entries in the past week. [...]
Friday 16th March 2007
Gonzo’s Final Straw?
11:58 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Impeachment | Rule of Law | Comments: 9
Murray Waas, one of the best investigative journalists in DC, has a new piece on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s role in derailing a Justice Department investigation of his own possible criminality. Waas notes at the National Journal:
Shortly before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales advised President Bush last year on whether to shut down a Justice Department [...]
Monday 26th December 2005
Donlan’s Courageous Barron’s Editorial on Impeachment
8:47 pm | Barron's | Bovard | Donlan | Impeachment | Wiretapping | Comments: 4
Tom Donlan, editorial page editor of Barron’s, has an excellent editorial on Bush’s illegal wiretaps:
“Administration lawyers and the president himself have tortured the Constitution and extracted a suspension of the separation of powers.”
“Putting the president above the Congress is an invitation to tyranny. The president has no powers except those specified in the Constitution and [...]