Criminals in the Office

Who would have ever thought that one, we would have a President who is a criminal and two, that nobody in the United States seems to care.

There are those who choose to apologize and forgive this corrupt, inept and criminally incompetent administration, but then there are those who watch the criminal activity of this administration and just shrug. Why?
The Democrats and Republicans better bring this administration to justice.

On May 15th, James Comey testified about the NSA wiretapping program and what he said was quite disturbing.

President Bush ordered the NSA to engage in warrant less eavesdropping back in October 2001. The incidents, which Comey described yesterday -- whereby the DOJ refused to certify the program's legality -- occurred in March 2004, two-and-a-half years later. Since the NSA was spying on Americans the Federal court that ruled on this matter has concluded that the NSA program violated both federal law and the U.S. Constitution.

Once Bush knew that both Aschcroft and Comey believed the eavesdropping was illegal, he ordered it to continue anyway.

“In the early part of 2004, the Department of Justice was engaged -- the Office of Legal Counsel, under my supervision -- in a reevaluation both factually and legally of a particular classified program. And it was a program that was renewed on a regular basis, and required signature by the attorney general certifying to its legality.

And the -- and I remember the precise date. The program had to be renewed by March the 11th, which was a Thursday, of 2004. And we were engaged in a very intensive reevaluation of the matter.”

Comey then made clear that he and Ashcroft met, determined that the NSA program lacked legal authority, and agreed that the DOJ would refuse to certify the legality of the NSA program. Yet even once Ashcroft and Comey made clear that the program had no legal basis, the President ordered it to continue anyway. As Comey said: "The program was reauthorized without us and without a signature from the Department of Justice attesting as to its legality."

The President's own political appointees -- the two top Justice Department officials, including Ashcroft were so convinced of its illegality that they refused to certify it and “were preparing, along with numerous other top DOJ officials, to resign en masse” once they learned that the program would continue even though the President knew it was illegal.

It is clear that the President deliberately violated the law and committed multiple felonies by eavesdropping on Americans in violation of the law.
When The Whitehouse realized Comey and Ashcroft were not going to authorize the continuation of the NSA program ( the spying on America illegally), Gonzales and Andrew Card tried to get Ashcroft’s signature while he was hospitalized and incoherent after surgery. Nice.

What prompted the DOJ suddenly to "reexamine" the legality of the program after all that time?

If the Justice Department and Federal court says the program is illegal, isn’t that convincing enough?

Why is impeachment “off the table” as one Democrat put it?

Cheney and Bush have blatantly violated the laws of the United States and violated the Constitution that both took vows to uphold.

They deserve impeachment. We owe it to ourselves, the world and future generations of Americans who face Presidents who abuse their power and ignore and even break the law.

Let’s put the impeachment option back” on the table.”

The Washington Post Editorial Board (Hardly "Liberal" media) said:

" this is an account of Bush administration lawlessness so shocking it would have been unbelievable coming from a less reputable source." And as I documented yesterday, these "shocking" revelations were long concealed due to Alberto Gonzales' patently false assurances that the testimony of Comey and Ashcroft -- which Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee sought last year -- would not "add to the discussion.

The above was written on May 16th by Andre Hernandez . I don't believe I could have said it better myself.