<DIV class=articleTitle><FONT face=arial size=3><STRONG>Action alert for National Impeachment Lobbying Days Jan 15-16</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=spacer style="HEIGHT: 8px"><FONT face="times new roman"></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=articleAttachmentBrowser> <DIV class=t12 id=photoBrowser><FONT face="times new roman"></FONT></DIV><IFRAME name=photoBrowser marginWidth=0 marginHeight=0 src="http://www.gather.com/photoBrowser.jspf?elementId=photoBrowser&context=attachment&meId=472249&parentId=281474977230488" frameBorder=0 width=0 scrolling=0 height=0></IFRAME> <SCRIPT type=text/javascript> function getDivNodeAja(id) { var divNode = document.getElementById(id); for (i = 0;i<divNode.childNodes.length;++i) { if (divNode.childNodes[i].nodeType==3) { var textNode = divNode.childNodes[i]; break; } } if (!textNode) { var textNode = document.createTextNode(''); divNode.appendChild(textNode); } return divNode; } function photoBrowser_paint(html) { div =
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style="HEIGHT: 20px"><FONT face="times new roman"></FONT></DIV><SPAN class="t13 lh18"><SPAN class=articleText><!-- BEGIN: Article Text --> <div align=center><STRONG><FONT face="times new roman"><FONT size=4>Action Alert:<BR>Jan. 15 &16, 2008, National Impeachment Lobbying Days</FONT><BR><FONT size=3>Send an Email to Congress Today</FONT></FONT></STRONG></div> <div><FONT face="times new roman"></FONT> </div> <TABLE style="WIDTH: 323px; HEIGHT: 309px" cellSpacing=4 cellPadding=4 align=right border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <div align=center><FONT face="times new roman"><IMG alt=wintercampaign src="http://www.impeachbush.org/images/content/pagebuilder/13911.jpg" border=1><BR><STRONG><A href="http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=Y3VmbFeZZ_vqYfFVeFsL8g.." target=_blank><FONT style="COLOR: #0000cc" color=#0000cc>Please make a donation today -- click this link</FONT></A></STRONG>.</FONT></div></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><FONT face="times new roman">Impeachment
organizations and their members across the United States are uniting today and tomorrow to <STRONG>demand Congress impeach Bush</STRONG> <STRONG>and Cheney</STRONG>for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. ImpeachBush.org members are urged totake action today and to circulate this action alert to friends andfamily members. The Winter Lobbying Campaign is in full swing thanks toyour support and involvement. </FONT> <div><FONT face="times new roman">The politicians are feeling the heat of the impeachment movementthat has spread all over the country. Let's keep up the pressure!</FONT></div> <div><STRONG><A href="http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=3ePXYeofQHXz2eYTeZDKXA.." target=_blank><FONT style="COLOR: #0000cc" face="times new roman" color=#0000cc>Make a donation today and help the impeachment movement get stronger by clicking this link</FONT></A></STRONG><FONT face="times new roman">.</FONT></div> <div><FONT face="times new roman"></FONT> </div> <div><FONT
face="times new roman">Congressman Robert Wexler is organizing his colleagues to ask HouseJudiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers to begin Cheney impeachmenthearings. Wexler is asking his fellow Judiciary Committee Members toco-sign a letter to Conyers.</FONT></div> <div><STRONG><FONT face="times new roman"></FONT></STRONG> </div> <div><FONT face="times new roman"><STRONG>Take a moment today</STRONG> and ask your representative tourge Chairman Conyers to begin impeachment hearings against both GeorgeBush and Dick Cheney. Click this link to send a letter to Congress nowto join in the National Impeachment Lobbying Days.</FONT></div> <div><FONT face="times new roman">Congressman Dennis Kucinich was the first member of Congress to takea step for impeachment in April 2007. H. Res. 333, Articles ofImpeachment Against Dick Cheney (reintroduced on Nov. 6, 2007, as H Res799), is sponsored by the following Members of Congress: JanSchakowsky, Maxine Waters, Hank
Johnson, Keith Ellison, Lynn Woolsey,Barbara Lee, Albert Wynn, William Lacy Clay, Dennis Kucinich, YvetteClarke, Jim McDermott, Jim Moran, Bob Filner, Sam Farr, Robert Brady,Tammy Baldwin, Donald Payne, Steve Cohen, Sheila Jackson Lee, CarolynKilpatrick, Ed Towns, Diane Watson, Danny Davis, Raul Grijalva, GwenMoore.</FONT></div> <div><FONT face="times new roman"></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face="times new roman">Robert Wexler, Tammy Baldwin, and Luis Gutierrez are urging theinitiation of hearings and are joined in this by Anthony Weiner. MikeMichaud has written to Chairman Conyers calling for Cheney impeachmenthearings. Tim Mahoney is said to be open to the idea of impeachmenthearings.</FONT></div> <div><STRONG><FONT face="times new roman"></FONT></STRONG> </div> <div><STRONG><A href="http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=RSwJx4KWlf67N41URp_RfQ.." target=_blank><FONT style="COLOR: #0000cc" face="times new roman" color=#0000cc>Send an email to Congress
today</FONT></A></STRONG><FONT face="times new roman"> andtell them that you insist that they uphold the Constitution and holdhigh officials accountable for their criminal actions. It is easy. <STRONG><A href="http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=5Y7vCkLwE04QvS_VMmX0Ww.." target=_blank><FONT style="COLOR: #0000cc" color=#0000cc>Just click this link to send a letter now</FONT></A></STRONG><FONT style="COLOR: #0000cc" color=#0000cc>.</FONT></FONT></div> <div><STRONG><FONT face="times new roman"></FONT></STRONG> </div> <div><STRONG><FONT face="times new roman">Help Make Impeachment a Reality</FONT></STRONG></div> <div><FONT face="times new roman"></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face="times new roman">ImpeachBush.org, the largest grassroots impeachment organization inthe United States, is launching new nation-wide initiatives forimpeachment. Mass rallies, lobbying days, newspaper ads and masspetitioning are making this movement grow. Nothing is more important toSave the
Constitution. Please donate today so that this movement willkeep growing and we can make impeachment a reality. <STRONG><A href="http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=HYKAw2zDGTucNjKOoZ1lTw.." target=_blank><FONT style="COLOR: #0000cc" color=#0000cc>Click this link to send to make an on-line donation or to send a check</FONT></A></STRONG>. </FONT></div> <div> </div> <div><FONT face="Times New Roman">___________________________________________________________________________</FONT></div> <div><FONT face=arial size=3><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </div> <div><A href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/15/politics/politico/thecrypt/main3717807.shtml">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/15/politics/politico/thecrypt/main3717807.shtml</A></div> <div> </div> <div><A href="http://www.politico.com/" target=new><IMG hspace=10 src="http://www.cbsnews.com/images/2004/06/01/image620519.gif" vspace=2 border=0><IMG
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we are talking about the manipulation of intelligence on Iraq,” he went on, “whether we are talking about the outing of a covert CIA agent, whether we're talking about the illegal use of torture, whether we're talking about the potentially unlawful firing of U.S. prosecutors - on all of these issues, the administration has thus far successfully used the power of executive privilege."<BR><BR>But impeachment hearings would be different, Wexler said, since the White House could not raise a privilege claim in order to avoid answering questions from lawmakers.<BR><BR>"In an impeachment hearing, the administration does not have the power of executive privilege," Wexler said, noting that the secret tapes that helped bring down President Richard Nixon did not surface until the House Judiciary Committee began impeachment hearings.<BR><BR>The House voted on Nov. 6 on a resolution by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) to bring articles of impeachment against Cheney for pushing for the
2003 invasion of Iraq, repeatedly suggesting that there ties between al Qaeda and the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and advocating military action to overthrow Iran.<BR><BR>When Republicans, in a bid to embarrass House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders, voted for the measure, the House was thrown into a brief deadlock. The measure was eventually approved and sent to the Judiciary Committee, where Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) has declined to take action, despite pressure from Wexler and liberal activists outside Congress. <BR><!-- sphereit end --><BR style="CLEAR: both"><BR></div> <div class="storyCopyright legal">Copyright 2008 POLITICO</div> <div><NOINDEX><BR></div> <HR style="HEIGHT: 6px"> <div> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=436 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=154><A href="http://www.politico.com/" target=new s_oidt="0" s_oid="http://www.politico.com/"><IMG
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