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http://www.berkshireeagle.com/headlines/ci_3534011

Berkshire Eagle -- Pittsfield, Mass.

Olver calls for probe to impeach president

By Evan Lehmann, Eagle Washington Bureau


Wednesday, February 22
WASHINGTON — Rep. John W. Olver supports an investigation into whether President Bush should face impeachment for possibly manipulating intelligence to support the invasion of Iraq.
Olver, D-Amherst, and Rep. John Tierney, D-Salem, signed onto a bill to create a House select committee to conduct the investigation.

Bush would face impeachment under the long-shot legislation if the panel determines the president "manipulated" intelligence to convince Congress that Saddam Hussein had weapons to attack America and that he intended to sell them to al-Qaida.

"It is an issue that should be examined in total detail," Olver said in a telephone interview yesterday.

Twenty-six Democrats have co-sponsored the measure, which was introduced in December by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.

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