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Judiciary Chairman Conyers Issues Report Documenting Bush Abuses, Calling For Further Committee Investigation, Blue-Ribbon Panel, and Criminal Probes

For Immediate Release
January 13, 2009
Contact: Jonathan Godfrey, Lillian German

(Washington, D.C.) -- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. released a nearly-500 page report documenting numerous abuses and excesses of the Bush administration. The report, titled "Reining in the Imperial Presidency: Lessons and Recommendations Relating to the presidency of George W. Bush," contains 47 separate recommendations designed to restore the traditional checks and balances of our constitutional system. Recommendations include calls for continued committee investigation, a blue ribbon commission to fully investigate administration activities, and independent criminal probes.

"Even after scores of hearings, investigations, and reports, we still do not have answers to some of the most fundamental questions left in the wake of Bush’s Imperial Presidency," Conyers said. Pointing to allegations of torture and inhumane treatment, extraordinary rendition, warrantless domestic surveillance, the Valerie Plame Wilson-leak, and the U.S. attorney scandal, Conyers continued, "Investigations are not a matter of payback or political revenge – it is our responsibility to examine what has occurred and to set an appropriate baseline of conduct for future administrations."

In addition to the set of recommendations, the report contains a foreword by Chairman Conyers and detailed discussions of: the administration’s legal approach to presidential power; the politicization of the Department of Justice; the administration’s far-reaching assaults on individual liberty (including torture, extraordinary rendition, and warrantless domestic surveillance); the misuse of Executive Branch authority; the administration’s retribution against its critics; and the administration’s excessive secrecy, noncompliance with congressional oversight, and manipulation of pre-Iraq War intelligence.

http://judiciary.house.gov/news/090113_1.html

The full report [487 pages on pdf]:
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/printers/110th/IPres090113.pdf

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Source: House Judiciary Committee website:
http://judiciary.house.gov/index.html
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Here's the Revolutionary Communist Party (see link below) boasting of a FULL PAGE 'World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime' ad of theirs which appeared in the New York Slimes. (either "rwor.org" or "revcom.us" takes you to the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party). The NY Times has since allowed several additional full-page RCP/WCW ads.
Article title: "Who Hated the Bush Step Down Ad in the New York Times? ...And what that Tells Us About Why We Must and How We Can Drive Out the Bush Regime"(actual title)
http://www.rwor.org/a/028/who-hated-bush-ad.htm

[Piquaboy]

It will be a cold day in hell when the Rats investigate their own.

[alloysteel]

There seems to be no one to watch the self-appointed watchers, certainly nobody who will take the bold action needed to steer away from this much-unwanted and wholly unwarranted witch hunt.

Yes, John Conyers may be acting in what may only be described as a subversive manner, intending to bring down a goodly portion of our liberties as stated in the Constitution, by the simple expedient of ignoring the provisions of the Constitution when it is in his personal interests. But until he is called to account, his slanders and mischief shall only proliferate and become institutionalized in bureaucratic snarls and litigation.

[SunkenCiv]

Conyers is going to be purged by Waxman et al; welcome to the Matrix. :’)

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[grellis]

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[Don Corleone]

For all of you who thought that Joe McCarthy was a loon....read the above again and again and again....!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Investigate what?

They need to be rounded up.

By signing, they have declared themselves EMEMIES DOMESTIC...by plotting a violent overthrow of the United States.

Some of us have taken a pledge to defend the Constitution against enemies both foreign and domestic.

Go get 'em guys.

[Godzilla]

Brig. Gen. (Ret) Janis Karpinski

General in charge at Abu Ghraib.