Let’s turn up the heat:
Several activists from World Can’t Wait, joined by other antiwar activists are at Jerold Nadler’s Brooklyn office today. They don’t intend to leave until they get a commitment from Nadler to get impeachment started in the House Judiciary Committee. They are requesting that you put out the word, asking people to call Nadler’s offices to make the same demand.
Washington Office: Tel. 202-225-5635
Manhattan Office: Tel. 212-367-7350
Brooklyn Office: Tel. 718-373-3198Nadler is the chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and definitely sympathetic. Here’s what he had to say to Josh Marshall back in June about Bush’s warrantless wiretapping:
“a criminal conspiracy…worse than Watergate…The President, the Attorney General, and anybody else — there’s a prima facie case they engaged in a criminal conspiracy. And in effect what they’re saying is they have a right to classify, and thus hold themselves harmless, from a criminal conspiracy. From my point of view, if the executive branch is contemptuous of the power of Congress, and is going to go above the law, and ignore the law, you have to use whatever weapons the Constitution gives Congress.”
I just wish they would go for it and get it done.