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Why impeachment is off the table.

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Well maybe it is a little clearer why the first thing Pelosi did after she became speaker of the house was to take impeachment off the table.

According to the Washington Post beginning in 2002 leading lawmakers both Republican and Democrat where briefed on the so called enhanced interrogation techniques including waterboarding.  The lawmakers who held oversight roles during that time period included Nancy Pelosi, Jane Harman, Bob Graham, John Rockefeller IV, Porter Goss, and Pat Roberts.

The only one that objected the technique was Representative Jane Harmon.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120801664.html?hpid=topnews 

So it looks as though Speaker Pelosi and other Democrats have colluded with the Bush administrations torture techniques because she knew about them but did not report them.

Senator Biden has called for an independent counsel to investigate the destruction of the torture tapes that have been in the news for the last week.  It seems though Senator Jay Rockefeller D(W.V.) chairman of the Senate intelligence Committee does not think there is a need for an independent counsel because he said “ it is the job of the intelligence committee to do that.”  I believe that the foxes are guarding the hen house.

This is starting to make some sense why after the Democrats took control of Congress that no serious investigation of this administrations lawlessness has occurred.

We the people need to make sure that there is an independent counsel appointed to investigate the destruction of the terror tapes and to determine who is complicit in this administrations total disregard for the rule of law.

The fox should not be guarding the hen house and we must enhance the improvements already made in Congresses ethics reform laws this year to include, a standing independent investigating body to watch Congress and the President.  Without this who are we to trust, the politicians?????

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Waterboarding is illegal by Susan Nelsen on Thursday, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:35:25 AM
Yes & No. You're not focusing on what underlies all this. by Richard Mynick on Thursday, Dec 13, 2007 at 12:28:35 PM
Two more needs by Joel S. Hirschhorn on Thursday, Dec 13, 2007 at 1:26:14 PM
Why? by Archie on Thursday, Dec 13, 2007 at 2:06:23 PM
The Table by M. Yeager on Thursday, Dec 13, 2007 at 4:23:55 PM
judgement call by Andris on Thursday, Dec 13, 2007 at 4:27:02 PM
Curbing human nature by Terry on Thursday, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:01:21 PM
I corrected my childen when they were 2 yo why should I by Andris on Friday, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:07:13 PM
PURPOSE OF TORTURE IS FEAR, NOT INFORMATION by rhalfhill on Friday, Dec 14, 2007 at 4:14:38 AM
POSSIBLY by Andris on Friday, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:29:17 PM
Waterboarding is just like swimming! by Munich on Thursday, Dec 13, 2007 at 5:10:10 PM
Swimming? by Terry on Thursday, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:04:34 PM
Perhaps a faulty premise? by ardee D. on Thursday, Dec 13, 2007 at 5:17:39 PM
Why is noone talking of contempt citations by RichardKane on Thursday, Dec 13, 2007 at 5:26:44 PM
the 9/11 excuse by Better World Order on Thursday, Dec 13, 2007 at 7:37:20 PM
Torture and Pelosi by Crystal Purcell on Thursday, Dec 13, 2007 at 8:52:27 PM
AMERICAN EDUCATORS STAND UP AND UNITE FOR IMPEACHMENT by Kevin Anthony Stoda on Friday, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:15:12 AM
the right approach .. by ladybroadoak on Friday, Dec 14, 2007 at 1:29:45 AM
Why Impeachment is Off the Table by Skeeter Sanders on Friday, Dec 14, 2007 at 1:45:19 AM
Impeachment by aberamsay on Friday, Dec 14, 2007 at 4:50:36 AM
impeachment by terk on Friday, Dec 14, 2007 at 8:41:05 AM