Bill Moyers on the War Debate

Below is a link to last Friday night’s Bill Moyers Journal on PBS. 
In the first segment, Moyers summarizes the Clinton Impeachment.  In the second segment he interviews two constitutional experts, one of whom worked on the Clinton Impeachment. 
First click on “Watch & Listen” to Bill Moyers. 
Then go to “Tough Talk on Impeachment,” and choose “watch video.” 
That is the longer segment with the two experts.  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07132007/watch.html 

TRANSCRIPT:  BILL MOYERS:
Welcome to the Journal.
"Impeachment...the word feared and loathed by every sitting president is back. It's in the air and on your computer screen, a growing clamor aimed at both President Bush and Vice-President Cheney."

The following is a excerpt from Senator Bob Graham’s 2004 book, Intelligence Matters –where he lists 11 grounds for impeachment. Graham was Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. 

EXCERPT:

"Any one of these things would warrant a leader's removal from office. 
Taken together, they are a searing indictment of a President who,
despite lofty words to the contrary, has not been a leader, has not
been honest, and has not made America safer.

•    After he was briefed in August 2001, that al-Queda was making
preparations consistent with hijackings, the President did not take
executive action to alert the Federal Aviation Administration, the
Department of Defense, or other agencies that might have used this
information to harden commercial aviation against an attack.

•    Throughout 2002, the President directed the FBI to restrain and
obfuscate the investigation of the foreign government support that some
and possibly all of the September 11 hijackers received.

•    In spite of the specific congressional authority the President had
sought and received to conduct war on al-Queda and the Afghanistan
government, early in 2002 the President directed that intelligence and
military resources necessary to win the war against the
Afghanistan-based terrorists be relocated to commence preparation for
an as yet unauthorized war against Iraq.

•    The President declared, 'Our war on terror begins with al-Queda,
but it does not end there.  It will not end until every terrorist group
has been found, stopped, and defeated.'  However, the President failed
to seek or obtain authority to use force against terrorist networks of
"global reach, specifically Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, nor
has he developed a plan to find, halt, and defeat these international
terrorists.

•    Although the President knew that Syria was providing sanctuary for
a number of terrorist organizations – including Hezbollah, which is
responsible for more than 300 American deaths – he was late and lax in
exerting economic or political influence on the government of Syria.

•    Even as he represented Baghdad as the next front in the war on
terror, the President, as commander-in-chief, failed to prepare
adequately for the war in Iraq and its consequences.  As a result, the
capabilities of al-Queda and other international terrorists have been
strengthened.

•    In the fall of 2002, the President allowed intelligence agencies
under his control to present erroneous, misleading, and incomplete
information to the Congress, our allies, and the American people in
support of the war in Iraq.

•    The President further adulterated that intelligence by selective
use and presentation of the evidence to justify a preemptive war to the
American people and the Congress, and to the world community at the
United Nations.

•    The President failed to prepare the Congress and the American
people to judge what was the greater threat – international terrorist
networks or Saddam Hussein – by refusing to release the information he
had in his possession as to the relative number of international
terrorists and Iraqi operatives present in the United States.

•    Through delayed, halfhearted, and political use of the proposal to
create and expeditiously activate a Department of Homeland Security,
the President has failed to protect our country.

•    The President has engaged in a cover-up, withholding from the
American people the evidence that supplies the basis of several of the
above charges.  He has done so by misclassifying information as
national security data.  While the information may be embarrassing or
politically damaging, its revelation would not damage national
security."