Response to Elizabeth de la Vega: Disagreement with a Friend and a Hero By David Swanson
1. If we do not extend the statutes of limitations, the careful and considered delay will be immunity 2. The Senate as a whole will never ever approve any useful investigation except in committees, but it might convict following an impeachment that changes public awareness 3. Congressional hearings produce relatively little 4. Congress should extend the statutes of limitations, bust the media monopolies to produce more reporting, and reissue and enforce the outstanding subpoenas into which lots of careful work went over the past 2 years 5. Leahy joined the DOJ in pushing a commission as a substitute, not as a first step, and anything like that begun before a special prosecutor is begun will be treated as a substitute 6. Impeaching Bybee should begin at once 7. A House select committee looking into restoring Congressional power and restricting presidential should begin at once or after a prosecution begins, but Conyers' or Leahy's proposal for a commission created by both houses will not go anywhere. 8. House and Senate committees should hold hearings, including to reissue all the outstanding subpeonas. 9. I just don't want a hearing begun that is seen as a substitute for enforcing laws, and I don't see an argument for delaying enforcing laws. 10. Betsy knows the law and means well and I'm open to being convinced by her, but haven't been yet. And I won't be unless the problem of statutes of limitations is addressed at a minimum. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to newsfromunderground-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
