Wow look what I found on the normally useless Yahoo message boards.

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http://news.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&board=37447170&tid=huffpost013023&sid=37447170&mid=1

Bush committed FELONIES: impeach NOW!
by: bush_kills_america 12/29/05 04:20 pm
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And he says he'll commit them again.

He could have gotten warrants from the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court -- if this surveillance was legit. They're easy to get, can be issued up to 72 hours AFTER THE FACT, http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/50/chapters/36/subchapters/i/sect ions/section_1805.html (paragraph f), and many thousands have been issued over the years

But instead of following the law, which he never before said was inadequate to do his job (and which he never asked Congress to amend), he instead insisted on "showing his power" -- power the Constitution does not give him -- by flagrantly violating the law, and by saying he'll do it again. Each of his violations is a federal FELONY, punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/50/chapters/36/subchapters/i/sect ions/section_1809.html

Can we IMPEACH and CONVICT now? Or do we have to wait until he renounces the Constitution?

Oh, wait, he just did that, too, calling it "a goddamned piece of paper":

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml

Sounds like a direct violation of his oath of office to "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC...."

Time to defend it from Bush.

IMPEACH and CONVICT now! DEMAND it from your representative and senators:

http://www.house.gov
http://www.senate.gov

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Oh, and as for Gonzales's "defense", FISA specifically provides for a limited exception to the warrant requirement "for a period not to exceed fifteen calendar days following a declaration of war by the Congress". http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/50/chapters/36/subchapters/i/sect ions/section_1811.html But Congress never declared war, and Bush violated the warrant requirement over a period of years.

Oops. Felony!