What Does Treason Have to do with Impeachment?

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What Does Treason Have to do with Impeachment?
Impeachment
by Bill Hare | June 19, 2008

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What would Washington and Jefferson say if they learned about secretly removing a citizen of a foreign nation to a nation bereft of constitutional safeguards and interrogating ruthlessly without any specified time frame?

What about snooping through libraries to determine what people have been reading without any warrant or explanation why such information is being gathered?

How about refusing to allow terrorist suspects right to counsel and indefinitely torturing them, including waterboarding?

What about scrapping the nation’s search and seizure laws, protective safeguards under the Bill of Rights, and replacing them with an all-powerful executive that breaks into homes and removes evidence, then is also empowered to arrest, and then hold indefinitely while denying right to counsel or trial by jury?

How about invading a foreign nation on a baseless, easily disprovable lie that America was threatened by weapons of mass destruction, refusing to allow a UN team investigating that very charge the opportunity to finish its report before subjecting that same nation to a bombardment that made Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like pre-game warm-up drills?

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Would Washington and Jefferson have found that, contrary to detractors, that Kucinich was addressing the “real issues” of America by introducing articles of impeachment against Bush and Cheney?

Could it also be that they, given the foregoing, would consider such actions treasonous?

Should we also conclude based on the record that acts of treason have been committed in a nation where the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law have been replaced by neoconservative corporate dictatorship and unceasing, unchecked power residing in a lawless federal executive?
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