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EXCLUSIVE: Bush Admin May Have Violated 26 Statutes, Dems Say Justin Rood / Muck Raker | Aug 1 2006 The Bush administration may have broken over two dozen federal laws and regulations -- some of them multiple times -- according to an unreleased report from the House Judiciary Committee Democrats. "The misconduct I have found is not only serious, but widespread," reads a draft summary of the report by Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI): The laws implicated by the Administration’s
actions include federal laws against making false statements to congress
[sic]; federal laws and international treaties prohibiting torture and
cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment; federal laws concerning retaliating
against witnesses and other government employees; Executive Orders concerning
leaking and other misuse of intelligence; federal regulations and ethical
requirements governing conflicts of interest; the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act; communications privacy laws; the National Security
Act; and the Fourth Amendment. In earlier days such a report would be easily ignored. But with the looming possibility of Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives in November, Conyers' charges pose a potentially serious threat to the Bush administration. After all, it takes only a simple majority vote in the House to impeach a sitting president. On their face, the laundry list of alleged wrongs form a natural basis for impeachment proceedings -- but Conyers has insisted he has no intention of rushing to impeach. No, a slow walk to possible impeachment (preferably down a path that includes months of hearings) is more what the would-be chairman envisions, he has said. My call to the White House was not immediately returned. ---------------------------------------------------
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