CONYERS: Top Priority Will Be Investigating - Bush Signing Statements On Torture & Patriot Act

[kpete]

Exclusive: House Judiciary Committee will probe Bush torture, Patriot Act statements

Brian Beutler
Published: Thursday February 1, 2007

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) will be investigating all of President Bush’s so-called signing statements to determine how drastically the president has misinterpreted laws passed by Congress.

Specifically, Judiciary aides tell RAW STORY that the Chairman's top priorities are a statement in which Bush said he didn't need to comply with a congressional ban on torture and Patriot Act statements which say the President doesn't need to turn over reports of surveillance to Congress.

“The reason why we’re doing this, you don’t really know what the Administration is doing with these signing statements,” said a Judiciary Committee aide. “What they say in the signing statements is that they have the intent to interpret things differently than Congress passed.”

Conyers now wants to know “to what extent the signing statements are an indication that the Bush Administration is circumventing Congress.”

...............

more at:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Conyers_How_badly_Bush_circumventing_Congress_0201.html

[AndyA]

1. Good news! Anyone want to take bets on how long before impeachment is added to this list?

I'm thinking Conyers isn't going to have to dig too deep to find something impeachable.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Excellent, thank you Representative Conyers!

:patriot:

[seafan]

3. "....the Bush Administration is circumventing Congress...."

Conyers now wants to know “to what extent the signing statements are an indication that the Bush Administration is circumventing Congress.”


Lay that groundwork, Mr. Conyers. And please do it as quickly as you can.

[AikidoSoul]

4. Please Rep. Conyers, dig deep into this

Thanks for the uplifting post Kpete.

:-)