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Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:00 AM

Bush's impeachable offense

Yes, the president committed a federal crime by wiretapping Americans, say constitutional scholars, former intelligence officers and politicians. What's missing is the political will to impeach him.

By Michelle Goldberg

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 09:28 AM

Emptiness of all Real Preventative Value

Dear Salon:

What this recent disclosure about the wiretapping of U.S. Citizens without warrents indicates is how meaningless all of these so-called rights are in actual practice. How impossible it is to stop a president from violating the law before or during-the-fact.

The only thing that prevents a president from breaking the law is his own respect for it. There are no enforcement mechanisms and there are no "checks and balances" until it is too late and even then, they are pretty impotent.

If the president is impeached, I will be proven to be wrong and I hope oh-so-much that I am.

Sincerely yours,

Arthur C. Hurwitz

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