BREAKING News: Iraq Report is released and Rep. Conyers calls for censure of Bush and Cheney

There are a number of top liberal bloggers who have avoided writing about impeachment even though in their community sites diarists have been writing about the issue non-stop since before the 2004 elections. Particular attention is the office of Rep. John Conyers, who have been diaring at DailyKos about the possibility of impeachment since the eruption of the Downing Street memos scandal.

If there is any evidence needed for the netroots not to cower from the inevitability of impeachment, then look no further. A 273 pages long report from the 109th Congress: The Constitution in Crisis; The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War (PDF). The chapter breakdown is here.

[via Iraq Report 109th Congress]:

There is a prima facie case that these actions by the President, Vice-President and other members of the Bush Administration violated a number of federal laws, including (1) Committing a Fraud against the United States; (2) Making False Statements to Congress; (3) The War Powers Resolution; (4) Misuse of Government Funds; (5) federal laws and international treaties prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment; (6) federal laws concerning retaliating against witnesses and other individuals; and (7) federal laws and regulations concerning
leaking and other misuse of intelligence.

While these charges clearly rise to the level of impeachable misconduct, because the Bush Administration and the Republican-controlled Congress have blocked the ability of Members to obtain information directly from the administration concerning these matters, more investigatory authority is needed before recommendations can be made regarding specific Articles of Impeachment. As a result, we recommend that Congress establish a select committee with subpoena authority to investigate the misconduct of the Bush Administration with regard to the Iraq war detailed in this Report and report to the Committee on the Judiciary on
possible impeachable offenses.

Of course, not to leave this on the floor as a just more paper, John Conyers, the Congressman behind this effort, has introduced 3 resolutions : One for a bi-partisan investigative commission and the other two introduce censuring measures against Bush and Cheney.

Which begs the question now : Do we still need ImpeachPAC? Part of the reason it was created was to bring these measures to the floor of Congress and the Senate. Conyers has already done this? I believe ImpeachPAC is more needed than ever if only because we need to have a majority in both Congress and the Senate --and the more Democrats for impeachment we have as opposed to conservative or war loving mongers a la "Zell" Lieberman, the better.

'Tis the best Christmas present ever.

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