while looking for impeachable offenses by then White House Counsel, be sure to include:
1. speaking of classified information in an unsecured space, GW hospital,

2. in front of person not cleared to hear it, Mrs. Ashcroft, and perhaps medical personnel and

3. using an unsecured lines to prepare for this illegal sharing of information—is there an infraction under the Patriot Act here?

According to USNWR, it is at least an action that merits disbarment from the Texas bar….

Emptywheel, can you comment?

I called Senator Bond’s (MO)office asking for a yes vote on the No Confidence motion when it’s introduced in the Senate.

Robert Greenwald rocks! Great video…

Actual proposed articles of impeachment against Gonzales are needed at http://priming-the-pump.wikispaces.com/
Please drop a note in the discussion tab with any info you have.

Thanks,
Bob in HI

hold on. MSM is messing with our heads.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com…..98493.aspx

â€What bunk. This quote is false. Ken Strickland got the quote wrong. The quote is not from a â€senior Democratic aideâ€, the quote is from the Minority Leader GOPer Mitch McConnell: WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Republican on the Senate committee investigating Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Sunday he believes Gonzales could resign before a no-confidence vote sought this week by Senate Democrats. In a further sign of his eroding support within the GOP, Gonzales failed to draw a public statement of support from Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Asked whether Gonzales effectively can lead the Justice Department, McConnell said â€that’s for the president to decide.†The senator suggested there may be several resolutions introduced to dilute a no-confidence vote. â€In the Senate, nobody gets a clear shot,†said McConnell, R-Ky. http://breakingnews.nypost.com…..ZAL… What is Ken Strickland trying to pull here?

Why should the White House be afraid of an impeachment of Aberto Gonzales?

The congress, the media, the blogsphere would be tangled up in the mess for months.

The one hope for salvation for Bush, the Iraqi Surge will continue to go on, the war drums will roll and my wonderful big brother will do his duty and continue his dance with death.

In the meantime a whole family of rabbits will have escaped the hat and crossed over the border.

I am not sure about Libby, but I guarantee that Alberto Gonzales will get a Presidential Pardon if he needs one, and maybe even if he doesn’t need one yet.

Libby was Cheney’s â€boy.†Alberto is a full blood brother of President Bush. My guess is they have sat in a sweat tent together and breathed the smoke of the holy cactus.

They are one.

Well, that description of Bush/Gonzo sent chills up my spine. Talk about dysfunction and enmeshment. Not a mentally healthy pair, huh??

I think the smoking analogy is probably a good analogy as to the â€club†that they share membership in.

But what is it that makes them ONE? It’s almost like the mob, did they share in a dance of death together?? Oh, why yes they did…they sent thousands of men and women to their deaths for the love of money and power. How much closer to â€mob†mentality can you get? It’s quite a blood bond, isn’t it?

Did anybody see the wonderful job Bob did of putting together and impeachment worrksite?

I urge you to click on the link above and add whatever nuggets of proof you have from the docu dumps or other research you have been doing.

TPM says new DOJ document dump coming.

EW,
Wouldn’t it be best if Abu is impeached rather than resign? Am I correct that once you are impeached you are not allowed to hold the positions that Negroponte (Reagan – Iran Contra), Poindexter (Iran Contra), Rumsfeld, Cheney, etc… hold now, or up until recently (if only they had been impeached when they were in previous administrations). That’s a good enough reason to me to impeach so we don’t see Abu ten years later in another administration.

I support moving forward regarding a possible impeachment of Gonzales — but it would not be â€fast†and it would have to be done properly. To that end, I want to recommend that people read through, or re-read any number of descriptions of the Rodino Committee’s work toward the impeachment of Nixon, simply because they did a solid and very respectable job. In particular, read the counts that eventually were voted out, and some of the debate about them.

The process has many stages. First, the need for a significant number of members of the house to author resolutions calling upon the Judiciary Committee to study and report back on the need to impeach Gonzales.

Then the Rules committee, (Louise Slaughter) reviews, and commits to committee, perhaps with a time limit.

Committee reports to the whole house, and if they find the equivalent of Probable Cause, then they ask for authorization to proceed, for committee staff and funding for investigations, and for additional subpoena and other investigative powers. If Granted, the Judiciary Committee staffs up and together with the Rules Committee lays down rules for proceeding.

Then the investigation proceeds, followed by drafting counts for impeachment (much like a charge), and eventually debates, votes, and returns successful counts to the whole house for debate and vote.

Unlike a Presidential Impeachment, an impeachment of a Judge or Cabinet Member can be referred to a sub-committee, or special committee of the House Judiciary Committee, and then once they have done the legwork, be sent to the full committee. (I suspect this is how it would work in this instance.)

Once you get a handle on the rather complex process — then try to fit what we already know about Gonzales into draft resolutions — for what do you think he requires impeachment? Remember, it doesn’t have to be precisely a criminal act, but it requires the form of that, and citations to specific evidence that support the claim. This is not all that easy, particularly given that we still have huge blocks of information outstanding.