Bush Impeachment

[jaqeboy]

LETTER:

Invitation to Congressmen to Take a Place in History

September 10, 2008

Dear Congressman,

This is to inform you of House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers' announcement to the National Impeachment Network on August 28, 2008 during the Democratic National Convention, that he will conduct an official impeachment inquiry on the Bush Administration upon the declared support of 40 US congressmen of any party. The objectives of the inquiry would be non-partisan and simple:

-To take the next step in holding the Administration accountable for the open defiance of the congressional subpoena of Karl Rove, a form of withholding evidence and obstruction of justice, which is what resulted in the adoption of an article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon.   Defiance of congressional subpoenas is itself impeachable.

- The resultant full or partial restoration of the system of checks-and-balances. - To  weaken the alarming legal precedents set by this Administration, such as those embodied in the legal theories of Alberto  Gonzales and John Yoo, on the detention of American citizens as "enemy combatants" in the context of the indefinite "war on terror".

So far the following congressmen have co-signed one or more of three impeachment resolutions against either George Bush or Dick Cheney filed in the past year:

Name, District, Action: H. Res. 333/H. Res. 1258/Wexler letter to Conyers:

Abercrombie, Neil, HI-1 W
Baldwin, Tammy, WI-2 * 333/1258/W
Boswell, Leonard, IA-3 333
Brady, Robert, PA-1 333
Capuano, Michael, MA-8 W
Clarke, Yvette D., NY-11 333/W
Clay, Wm. Lacy, MO-1 333/W
Cohen, Steve, TN-9 * 333/W
Davis, Danny, IL-7 333
DeFazio, Peter, OR-4 W
Ellison, Keith, MN-5* 333/W
Farr, Sam, CA-17 333/1258/W
Filner, Bob, CA-51 333
Grijalva, Raúl M., AZ-7 333/W
Gutierrez, Luis V., IL-4 * W
Hinchey, Maurice, NY-22 1258
Kucinich, Dennis, OH-10 333/1258/W
Jackson-Lee, Sheila, TX-18 333
Johnson, Henry "Hank", GA-4 333
Kilpatrick, Carolyn, MI-13 333
Lee, Barbara, CA-9 333/1258/W
McDermott, Jim, WA-7 333
Moore, Gwen, WI-4 333
Moran, James P., VA-8 333
Payne, Donald, NJ-10 333
Schakowsky, Janice, IL-9 333
Stark, Fortney Pete, CA-13 333
Thompson, Mike, CA-1 333
Towns, Edolphus, NY-10 333
Waters, Maxine, CA-35 333
Watson, Diane, CA-33 333
Wexler, Robert, FL-19 * 333/1258/W
Woolsey, Lynn, CA-6 333/1258/W

With just seven more congressmen/women added to this list, we may be able to bring to Chairman Conyers the declarations of support that he has asked for.

We are of many opinions on many issues, from all parts of the political spectrum, Republican and Democrat.  Our common  aim is to restore the Constitution, our system of checks-and-balances, and to close the books on this administration with a vigorous push in the direction of the rule of law. We, the National Impeachment Network, invite you to be one of John Conyers' Forty Congressmen who will forever occupy an important place in the history of our nation.  Please declare to Chairman Conyers that you will support his efforts, and become a co-sponsor of one or more of the standing resolutions for impeachment.

[jaqeboy]

Long post follows - didn't have link to it, so here goes:
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TO: THE NATIONAL IMPEACHMENT NETWORK, PLEASE CIRCULATE

With MSNBC having just demoted Keith Olbermann, and the rest of the major media tightly controlled, the last remaining outlet in America for voices vital to democracy is public access cable TV.  As a standard part of the cable package in thousands of communities across the country, public access TV reaches into the homes of millions of Americans and is not constrained by what media executives want you or don't want you to see.

In coordination with Rep. Dennis Kucinich's renewed drive this week for the opening of an impeachment hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, which now has the potential to be a one-two knock-out punch to the administration, due to its open defiance of congressional subpoenas, a clearly impeachable offense, members of the National Impeachment Network are launching a drive to have the following six-minute video run on public access TV simultaneously across the country.  Public access station are run by the community, and are governed by bylaws made by the community.  Thus management cannot censor political content.

This version of the "Impeach" video has been created specially by the video artist Billy Vegas for the National Impeachment Network.  Most TV stations are wired to show videostreams being played through the Internet directly, like a Youtube video.   There is also a link to a file which can be downloaded and burned onto a cd/dvd.  Billy has given express permission to use his video for the campaign described here.

If you have a public access TV station in your community, it is standard practice that a station will run anything requested by a member of that community upon filling out a simple form.  Fill out the form and ask for a run schedule, and they will put it on the air.

I am affiliated with the public access station CCTV in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  The reach-out will be to all public access station managers and producers of news-and-opinion content.

We are asking that impeachment activists take part in forwarding the following appeal to as many of the stations listed on the master Wikipeadia list as they can.  The short video  is an amazingly well-done piece which uses the Bush administration's own words, from their own mouths.  Nothing more is necessary to prove the case for impeachment.

MASTER LIST OF STATIONS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_access_stations_(United_States)

The energy for a massive groundswell is present and growing.  Despite the efforts of both political parties to bury it, they are clearly in a holding action which will crumble under a massive call campaign.  The July 25th hearing was buried for a very good reason.   To not bury it could have triggered the discussion and demands for impeachment that they dread.

Please forward this appeal as energetically as you can to the contact emails you find at the websites of public access TV stations, at the Wiki link.  It's ok if they get the same email more than once.   Most important is that knowledge of the actions of the coming weeks get pushed BEYOND THE SMALL BUBBLE OF INTERNET ACTIVISTS.  IF YOU ARE GOING TO TALK TO SOMEONE, MAKE IT SOMEONE WHO HAS A HALF-MILLION DOLLAR TELEVISION STATION AT HIS OR HER DISPOSAL.

WHEN THE PHONE CALLS START COMING IN, FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT INTERNET ACTIVISTS AND HAVE NEVER CALLED BEFORE, THE NATURE OF THE GAME WILL BE DIFFERENT.  Our best weapon against this law-breaking administration is the truth.  The calls may sometimes not be very articulate, or not fully informed, BUT WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT WILL BE CLEAR.  Priority states are INDIANA, OHIO, NORTH CAROLINA, AND TEXAS.  OTHER PRIORITY STATES ARE CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, VIRGINIA, NEW YORK, WISCONSIN, MICHIGAN, ALABAMA,, AND UTAH.  But I need help.  Please post, at the "Public Access TV Can Save the Nation" link at http://nationalimpeachment.org , which stations and/or states you are doing in the "comment" section, so I can update what has been done.    There area a hell of a lot of these stations, which is why this is so potentially powerful.   Look up the districts of members of the Judiciary Committee, and see if there is a station in it or nearby, and make that station a priority.

Judiciary members:
http://ralphlopezworld.com/index.html#members

The powers-that-be think they have us pretty well boxed in; they control the newspapers, they control the networks.  Public access TV is one thing they can't control.

Ralph Lopez
member, National Impeachment Network
http://nationalimpeachment.org/

Talk show interviewer, Cambridge Community Television
http://www.cctvcambridge.org/

"Public Access TV Can Save the Nation Campaign"
http://nationalimpeachment.org/?page_id=38

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INSTRUCTIONS:

Cut-and-past the following email below the dotted line, and tweak it to your liking, including putting in the name of your own impeachment group.  The opening "As an affiliate of the National Impeachment Network " is just an example.

MASTER LIST OF STATIONS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_access_stations_(United_States)

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TO: All Public Access TV Station Managers and Producers

FROM: National Impeachment Network Member and a Fellow Public Access Producer

ATTENTION: Station Managers, Please share this email with your individual news-and-opinion content producers, from a producer at a sister Public Access station in Cambridge, Massachusetts, CCTV. 

Dear Public Access Station Managers, Show Hosts, and Producers,


With MSNBC having just demoted Keith Olbermann, and the rest of the major media tightly controlled, the last remaining outlet in America for voices vital to democracy is public access cable TV.   I am a member of the National Impeachment Network , working together with thousands of impeachment activists across the country.  I am also a public access TV advocate with hundreds of hours logged as a talk show host.  We are of the belief that the Bush administration must be held accountable for possible war crimes, violations of the Constitution, and a level of law-breaking which is unprecedented in U.S. history.

As you may know, this last July 25th, 2008,  the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee held six hours of hearings on impeachment, in which a large and stellar panel of witnesses, both Republican and Democrat, testified that the administration must be impeached.  The panel included Vincent Bugliosi, (author of "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder",) Bruce Fein of the Reagan administration, and former congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman.  Although it was broadcast fully on C-SPAN, not a single network news station mentioned the hearing, nor was it reported in a single major newspaper.  Links to the full hearings are here, with the Bruce Fein and Bugliosi testimonies recommended as as must-sees.

Bugliosi:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcfpms98GeQ&feature=PlayList&p=9F833EE81EC327C0&index=28

This month Rep. Denjnis Kucinich will make a renewed push for impeachment, and the national impeachment movement will be behind him  As we have done many times in the past year, activists will travel to Washington DC to again argue in the offices of congressmen for impeachment.  The administration's defiance of congressional subpoenas has made it easier than ever to impeach.  We all are familiar with this administration's many wrongdoings, but in the end it is always a corollary charge, such as obstruction of justice, which gets an administration impeached. This is a simple way to restore the balance of powers, re-affirm the Constitution, and weaken the many truly alarming legal precedents set by this administration.


I am appealing to every public access TV station in America to do a run schedule of the following 7 minute video, as part of this national drive.  The video may be broadcast directly from the Internet, or downloaded as an MP4 file from our website for transfer to a CD or DVD for broadcast.  We strongly believe this video should be seen by all Americans.  It was created by video artist Billy Vegas, and he has given full permission for unrestricted public access TV use.  The heart of the video is nothing more than footage of administration statements, at various times, on the Iraq War.  But first and foremost it is an amazingly well-crafted piece which will grip your audiences.

If every station participates, the phones in congress will start ringing in coordination with the presence of activists in DC this week and next, and the possibility of impeachment takes on a new complexion.  The argument "but the votes aren't there in the Senate" is premature, because the American people have not yet been heard from.  Only when they have is any kind of vote count possible.

Just to get to one of the concerns we are often asked about as an impeachment movement, there will be no President Pelosi.  The 25th Amendment of the Constitution makes full provisions for the nomination and confirmation of a caretaker administration, no matter what the scenario.  Pelosi would become president only  if both  heads of the executive die suddenly at the same time.

The defiance of subpoenas by the Executive branch is  alone an impeachable offense.  This is what resulted in the adoption of an article of impeachment against Richard Nixon, for "obstruction of justice."  The Bush administration has taken nearly the same path by ordering Karl Rove, and then Harriet Miers, not to testify before the House Judiciary Committee.  All that is needed is for the public to demand Judiciary Chairman John Conyers enforce the subpoenas.  This would result in Rove and/or Miers either testifying about administration wrongdoings, or doing jail time.   As Judge Bates noted in the recent decision which says Harriet Miers must testify, the Committee already has the power of arrest.

More than half the population now supports the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.  Figures as divergent as Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Jerome Corsi, and Devvy Kidd have called for impeachment  The energy for a massive groundswell is present and growing.  Despite the efforts of politicians of both parties to bury the issue, they are clearly in a holding action which will crumble under a massive call campaign.  The hearings of July 25th, 2008 were buried by the media for a very good reason.  If large numbers of the public had been notified of the hearings, it might have triggered the discussion and renewed demands for impeachment that the politicians dread.

Please help us make history.  To borrow an analogy from state lotteries, if you don't play, you can't win.  As the sun sets on the Bush-Cheney administration, let us do this for our children and grandchildren, so that they too may live under a system of checks-and-balances, as our Founding Fathers intended, and under the rule of law.   Thank you.


THE VIDEO:
MP4 file available for download by public access TV stations:
http://www.ralphlopezworld.com/vegas.mp4

THE VIDEO AT YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePj55jICxHY


Coordinator: Ralph Lopez
Cambridge Community Television
http://www.cctvcambridge.org/

and

National Impeachment Network
http://nationalimpeachment.org/


FURTHER LINKS:
Judge Bates: Harriet Miers Must Testify
http://judiciary.house.gov/news/073108.html

Impeachment information:
http://impeachmentlefttoright.org/
http://www.impeachbush.tv/

[PattyLee loves dogs]

Piffle. All too little too late. It's time to start impeachment proceedings against McBama-Paden, so the trial will start before the end of hiser second term.

[Lloyd Danforth]

 

[jaqeboy]

Susan Serpa sends this update - sorry, didn't have a link to online source:
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Sen. Leahy, Chair Senate Judiciary Committee is giving Attorney General Michael Mukasey until Nov. 18th to provide documents related to Bush Administrations terrorism policies, including detention (violating the 6th and 8th Amendments) and "interrogation" (read: torture) policies and practices.

Let's push this hard!

Call Sen Leahy's office 202-224-4242 to insist he plan NOT to accept any violation of the subpoena.

This just could be the final lead-up to impeachment!


http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200810/102108a.html

U.S. SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY

CONTACT: Office of Senator Leahy, 202-224-4242
   

VERMONT
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Leahy Issues Subpoena For OLC Documents

Leahy Schedules November 18 Deadline
To Receive Documents, Testimony From Attorney General Mukasey

WASHINGTON (Tuesday, October 21, 2008) – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) issued a subpoena Tuesday compelling Attorney General Michael Mukasey to provide testimony and related documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee about legal analysis and advice from the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) related to the Bush administration's terrorism policies, including detention and interrogation policies and practices.

Leahy and other Judiciary Committee members have sought information related to the administration's detention and interrogation policies for more than five years.  Most recently, in August, Leahy and Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) wrote to White House Counsel Fred Fielding requesting specific OLC documents and a comprehensive index of all legal memoranda, letters, and opinions issued by the OLC to provide legal advice to the White House and agencies within the executive branch related to administration's interrogation and detention policies.   Additional requests for information about these policies were made on June 16, 2003; May 12, 2004; June 15, 2004; October 29, 2004; December 21, 2004; January 4, 2005; November 16, 2006; and October 25, 2007.

"This administration's stonewalling leaves this Committee without basic facts that are essential to carrying out its oversight responsibilities," Leahy wrote to Mukasey.  "There is no legitimate argument for withholding the requested materials from this Committee.  The Executive Branch should not obstruct Congress from conducting its constitutional oversight and lawmaking duties by making sweeping assertions of secrecy and privilege."

Leahy continued, "I continue to hope that the administration will cooperate with the Committee.  This Committee remains willing to work to with you and accommodate legitimate concerns in connection with your compliance with this subpoena."

The subpoena issued Tuesday by Leahy seeks specific documents from the Office of Legal Counsel, as well as any lists, logs or indices of OLC memoranda, opinions or legal advice created since September 11, 2001.  In a cover letter to Mukasey, Leahy indicated that the subpoena may be initially satisfied should the Justice Department provide the Judiciary Committee with a comprehensive and unredacted index of the subpoenaed legal memoranda.

The Senate Judiciary Committee authorized Leahy to issue the subpoena at a September 25 business meeting.  The deadline for the testimony and documents is November 18 at 10 a.m.

Below is the text of the cover letter sent to Attorney General Mukasey and the text of the issued subpoena.  PDFs are also available online.

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October 21, 2008

The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey
Attorney General of the United States
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC  20530

Dear Attorney General Mukasey:

After more than five years of requests for information and documents concerning legal analysis and advice from the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) related to the administration's detention and interrogation policies, the Senate Judiciary Committee has still only seen a small portion of the documents we have sought.  Indeed, we have learned far more about OLC opinions from press accounts and books than we have from the Executive Branch.  From the OLC's approval of abusive interrogation techniques in the so-called  Bybee, or "torture," memo, through the revelation just last week that the White House issued secret authorizations justifying the CIA's interrogation program, members of this oversight Committee have seen far too many surprises.

This Committee is responsible not only for oversight of OLC, but also for writing the laws on many of the subjects on which OLC has opined.  Nonetheless, we only recently received access to redacted versions of OLC legal opinions related to the CIA's interrogation program, and we have been refused other documents that we have repeatedly sought, including something as fundamental as an index of OLC opinions.  In another area, the Department only recently posted a June 29, 2007, OLC opinion on its exempting a grant from nondiscrimination provisions of the law. 

This administration's stonewalling leaves this Committee without basic facts that are essential to carrying out its oversight responsibilities.  On August 19, Senator Specter and I tried again to obtain the administration's cooperation.  We sent a letter to Mr. Fielding, the White House counsel, requesting specific documents, as well as an index of OLC opinions.  A copy of this request was also sent to you.  Our requests were, again, rebuffed, without even a commitment to work with us on providing an index.

After Mr. Fielding referred our requests to the Justice Department, and after receiving an inadequate written response from Mr. Nelson, on September 11, I provided notice that authorization of a subpoena for OLC materials would be on the Committee's business agenda.  On September 18, the Committee discussed the matter, and Senator Kyl requested that the matter be held over for one week.  On September 25, after further discussion, the Committee voted to authorize the subpoena.  In the intervening time, there has been no effort by the Department to accommodate the Committee's needs.  Instead, we have recently learned of previously undisclosed memoranda at the White House and a previously undisclosed OLC opinion from more than 15 months ago.

Attached is a subpoena for documents that constitute OLC's legal analysis and advice from September 11, 2001, to the present concerning the administration's national security practices and policies related to terrorism. The subpoena seeks specific documents as well as any lists, logs or indices of any and all OLC memoranda, opinions or legal advice created during that time period.  You may satisfy this subpoena initially by providing a comprehensive and unredacted index of the subpoenaed legal memoranda.

There is no legitimate argument for withholding the requested materials from this Committee.  The Executive Branch should not obstruct Congress from conducting its constitutional oversight and lawmaking duties by making sweeping assertions of secrecy and privilege.  To the extent necessary, the Committee is willing to accommodate legitimate redactions of operational details in these documents in order to protect national security information.  We ask that you segregate any documents containing classified national security information and deliver those separately to the Office of Senate Security in Room SVC-217 of the Capitol, where they will be maintained in compliance with all security laws and regulations.  Only Committee members and appropriately cleared staff will then be permitted to review them.

I continue to hope that the administration will cooperate with the Committee.  This Committee remains willing to work to with you and accommodate legitimate concerns in connection with your compliance with this subpoena.  I look forward to your compliance with the Senate Judiciary Committee's subpoena by the return date of November 18, 2008.

Sincerely,

PATRICK LEAHY   
Chairman                   

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Congress of the United States

To Michael Mukasey, Attorney General of the United States, Greeting:

Pursuant to lawful authority, YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED:

to appear before the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate of the United States, on November 18, 2008 at 10:00 am in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., then and there to testify about what you know relative to the Committee's inquiry into legal advice provided by the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel concerning the Administration's national security practices and policies related to terrorism, including the Administration's policies and practices related to detention and interrogation of detainees in U.S. custody; and to bring with you the documents described in Attachment A under the terms and conditions stated therein.  A personal appearance at the above-referenced date and time will not be necessary if the documents described in Attachment A are delivered to the Committee's offices or, if they contain classified national security information, to the Office of Senate Security at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled return.
Hereof fail not, as you will answer your default under the pains and penalties in such cases made and provided.
To any Committee staff member or U.S. Marshal to serve and return.
Given under my hand, by authority vested
in me by the Committee, on this    21  day  of   October , 2008.

Senator Patrick Leahy
Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate                                                           

Attachment A

Documents Subpoenaed

1. To provide the Committee with all documents constituting the legal analysis and advice the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel  ("OLC") provided to any agency, office, entity, or officer of the Executive Branch from September 11, 2001 to the present, concerning the Administration's national security practices and policies related to terrorism, and any related document: including complete and unredacted versions of the following:

A. Memorandum for Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President, Re "Protected Persons" in Occupied Iraq (March 18, 2004).

B. Any final OLC memorandum or written legal advice concerning applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention in Iraq, including but not limited to Article 49, including any March 19, 2004 memorandum, Re: Applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention in Iraq, including but not limited to Article 49.   

C. Memorandum for Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President, and William J. Haynes II, General Counsel, Department of Defense ("DOD"), from John C. Yoo, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, OLC, Re: Authority for Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the United States (October, 2001).

D. Memorandum for Daniel Bryant, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legislative Affairs, from John Yoo, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, OLC, Re: Applicability of 18 U.S.C. § 4001(a) to Military Detention of United States Citizens (June 27, 2002).

E. Memorandum for William J. Haynes II, General Counsel, DOD, from Jay S. Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, OLC, Re: The President's Power as Commander in Chief to Transfer Captured Terrorists to the Control and Custody of Foreign Nations (March 13, 2002).

F. Any finalized memorandum from the Department of Justice, Re: Liability of interrogators under the Convention Against Torture and the Anti-Torture Act when a prisoner is not in U.S. custody.

G.  Memorandum for John Yoo, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, OLC, from James C. Ho, Attorney-Advisor, OLC, Re: Possible Interpretations of Common Article 3 of the 1949 Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (Feb. 1, 2002), or any other finalized memoranda or opinions provided by the OLC regarding the interpretation of Common Article 3 of the 1949 Geneva Convention relating to the treatment of prisoners of war.

H. Memorandum for Alberto Gonzales, Counsel to the President, from Patrick F. Philbin, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, OLC, Re: Legality of the use of military commissions to try terrorists (Nov. 6, 2001).

I. Any and all legal advice issued by the OLC concerning written authorizations from the White House of any Central Intelligence Agency ("CIA") interrogation program or practice.

J. All lists, logs, or indices of any kind of any and all legal memoranda, letters, or opinions that were issued by the OLC from September 11, 2001 to the present, to provide legal advice to the White House or any department or agency of the Executive Branch (including the Department of Justice and its components) concerning the Administration's national security practices and policies related to terrorism.

2. As an alternative to producing the documents itemized in 1. A-J, this subpoena can be initally satisfied by producing and delivering a complete and comprehensive index of all legal memoranda, letters, or opinions that were issued by the OLC from September 11, 2001 to the present, to provide legal advice to the White House or any department or agency of the Executive Branch (including the Department of Justice and its components), concerning the Administration's national security practices and policies related to terrorism.

This index shall:

(i) Identify the agency or official who requested the legal advice from the OLC;

(ii) Identify the recipient of each legal opinion, letter, or memorandum;

(iii) Identify the title of each memorandum, letter, or opinion;

(iv) Identify the DOJ or OLC official who signed the opinion, memorandum, or letter;

(v) Include a brief description of the legal issues addressed by the opinion, memorandum, or letter.

Instructions

1. To the extent dates for the documents in this subpoena are given these dates are a guide, if they are not accurate the itemized documents shall still be provided if they otherwise meet the description given.

2. In complying with this subpoena, you are required to produce all final versions of all responsive documents that are in your possession, custody, or control, whether held by you or your past or present agent, employee, or representative acting on your behalf. You are also required to

produce documents that you have a legal right to obtain, that you have a right to copy, or to which you have access, as well as documents that you have placed in the temporary possession, custody, or control of any third party.

3. No documents as defined herein called for by this request shall be destroyed, modified, removed, transferred, or otherwise made inaccessible to the Committee. If you have knowledge that any subpoenaed document as defined herein has been destroyed, discarded, or lost,  identify the subpoenaed document and provide an explanation of the destruction, discarding,  loss or disposal and the date at which the document was destroyed, discarded or lost.

4. This subpoena is continuing in nature. Any document not produced because it has not been located or discovered by the return date shall be provided immediately upon location or discovery subsequent thereto with an explanation of why it was not located or discovered by the return date.

5. If you believe any responsive documents are protected by a privilege, you are required to provide a privilege log that (1) identifies any and all responsive documents  to which the privilege is asserted, (2) sets forth the date, type, addressee(s), author(s) (and,  if different, the preparer and signatory), general subject matter, and indicated or known  circulation of the document, and (3) states the privilege asserted in sufficient detail to ascertain the validity of the claim of privilege.

6. Production with respect to each document shall include all electronic versions and data files from email applications as well as from word processing, spreadsheet, or other electronic data repositories applicable to any attachments, and shall be provided to the Committee where possible in its native file format and shall include all original metadata for each electronic documents or data file.

7. To the extent possible, documents containing classified national security information must be segregated from those not containing such information. All classified documents must be handled consistent with relevant security laws and regulations and delivered to the Office of Senate Security in room SVC-217 of the United States Capitol.

Definitions

1. The term "document" as used in this subpoena includes all emails, memoranda, reports, agreements, notes, correspondence, files, records, and other documents, data or information in any form, whether physical or electronic, maintained on any digital repository or electronic media, and should be construed as it is used in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

2. The terms "related", "relating", "regarding", or "concerning", with respect to any given subject, shall be construed broadly to mean anything that constitutes, contains, embodies, reflects, identifies, states, refers to, deals with or is in any manner whatsoever pertinent to the subject.

3. The terms "including" and "includes," with respect to any given subject, shall be construed broadly so that specification of any particular matter shall not be construed to exclude any documents that you have reason to believe the Committee might regard as responsive.

4. The term "Department of Justice" includes without limitation, anyone presently or formerly employed, assigned, or detailed there.

5.  The term "Department of Defense" includes without limitation, anyone presently or formerly employed, assigned, or detailed there.                                                                             

6.  The term "Central Intelligence Agency" includes without limitation, anyone presently or formerly employed, assigned, or detailed there.

7. The term "White House" includes: all offices, individuals, or entities within the White House Office, including the Office of the Counsel to the President, the Office of the Chief of Staff, and the President himself; the Office of the Vice President, including the Vice President himself; and the National Security Council and its staff.

7. The term "Administration" refers to the Executive Branch during the terms of presidency of George W. Bush.

8. The terms "you" and "your" include all offices, individuals, or entities within the office of the Department of Justice, and, without limitation, anyone presently or formerly employed, assigned, or detailed there.
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[jaqeboy]

Cheney Indicted, So Impeach Bush, Mr. Conyers

New Kos Diary:

Cheney Indicted, So Impeach Bush, Mr. Conyers

by Ralph Lopez

Tue Nov 18, 2008 at 10:08:32 PM EST

Looks like Dick might have a wee might of trouble taking office now
that he is under indictment, so nothing to worry about there.  With
Christmas season after elections traditionally being impeachment
season (Clinton was impeached on December 16th) now is the time for
Conyers to move.  Impeachment activists are heading back to Washington
this week, and cranking up a "Remind Conyers of His Promise to Impeach
After the Election" Campaign.

See, back on March 17, 2008, in response to a question from the
audience on whether Conyers would impeach once the Nov. 4 elections
were over, Conyers said "You have my word on that."

Don Singleton's blog:
http://donsingleton.blogspot.com/2008/03/impeachment.html

"CNS News reported At a gathering of liberal activists in Washington
on Tuesday, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) was asked if he would commit
to holding the Bush administration accountable once a Democrat is in
the White House and illegal acts have been pinned on President Bush.
"Yes, you have my word on that," Conyers replied. He then shook the
questioner's hand as a sign of his commitment.

Conyers, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, told an audience at
the liberal Take Back America Conference that he is wrestling with the
idea of beginning impeachment proceedings against President Bush and
Vice President Cheney, but he believes that such an effort might
hamper Sen. Barack Obama's chance of winning the presidency.

However, Conyers guaranteed his liberal audience that he will pursue
legal action against Bush after the November elections.

  Once he is out of office, you can't impeach him, and Congress
cannot "pursue legal action" against a private citizen. That would up
to the Attorney General, and it would be tried in the court system,
not the Democratically controlled Senate.

"There are those who said, if you elect Democrats to Congress, we will
guarantee you two things: Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y) will become
chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and he will raises taxes; and
Conyers will become chairman of the Judiciary and he will impeach
President George W. Bush," Conyers said. "You want to make them half
right?""

ImpeachTime.org is cranking up a "Remind Conyers of His Promise to
Impeach After the Election" Campaign.  The campaign would be everyone
faxing the above-linked article to Conyers' office all week and
following up with phone calls saying "Congressman, please remember
your WORD on impeachment."  When backed to the wall, this man with an
honorable history early on in his career might rise to the most
honorable of all legacies.

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[jaqeboy]

Impeachment ad to run on TV in NY:

Message from Susan Serpa:

Put Impeachment in America's Living rooms

Hi impeachers,

The ad is set to run in New York!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17-95kXDcYg

I expect to receive run-times from our media buyer this morning.  Additional contributions will increase the runtimes and run areas.   Give up that second cup of coffee for a few days and send the money you save to send a message of grave importance during this precious window of opportunity. In this final month of the Bush Administration, the country is more united than ever in its disgust with Bush

http://nationalimpeachment.org/saveconstitutionad.html

[John Edward Mercier]

Give it another month and they will be disgusted with Congress and the next administration.