MoveOn calls for Bybee impeachment.
By on Apr 30th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
MoveOn calls for Bybee impeachment.
MoveOn released a video today calling for the impeachment of Jay Bybee. Watch it:
Since ThinkProgress launched our Bybee impeachment campaign 10 days ago, a few lawmakers have indicated support for such action. More support is needed, however. Last Sunday, CAPAF President and CEO John Podesta called for Bybee’s impeachment on CNN, arguing, “If he would do the right thing, he should just simply resign. If he doesn’t…I think a simple matter would be to remove him from office.”
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The world is watching how we – and I mean us citizens – handle this situation. Are we going to demand our good name be upheld by holding these people accountable for their actions or let them go free – all the while sitting in judgement of everyone else? The world is watching how we find ourselves again. Do we have the strength and fortitude to go through with impeachment? Or have the authoritarians raped our federal appeals courts? Bybee must go – one way or the other. If he were a true American, he would resign and hideaway for the rest of his life.
April 30th, 2009 at 5:12 pmI’d say “Cue the the trolls!” but I think they’re occupied tweezing ACORNs from their holios.
April 30th, 2009 at 5:16 pmI’m glad to see moveon back in the advocacy business after being all but shut down last fall with Obama’s “thanks but not thanks” request during the election.
PEACE
April 30th, 2009 at 5:18 pmIt’s also because the RNC have released a new fearmongering ad
GOP is collapsing.
April 30th, 2009 at 5:18 pmFearmongering will drive more folks away from the GOP.
These people must be taking advice from Dick Chaney or something.
StratRat Says:
If he were a true American, he would resign and hideaway for the rest of his life.
If he were a true American, he wouldn’t have said torture was legal.
April 30th, 2009 at 5:21 pmGood – the pressure is mounting to have Bybee impeached. The fact that Bybee has not resigned shows that he has no conscience and basically made a deal with the Bush Crime Family for that life time seat. He’d better relish it while he still can.
April 30th, 2009 at 5:28 pmThanks, MoveOn, we can’t let people become apathetic.
April 30th, 2009 at 5:39 pmThat’s a nice snowball you started there, TP. Yep, lovely snowball. Nice long snow-covered hill…
April 30th, 2009 at 5:39 pmIs the DOJ looking for applicants? Seriously, how can i help the DOJ do it’s job?
April 30th, 2009 at 5:50 pmHow much is Bybee paid? Is he paid every week or twice a month–how is his salary doled out? As a blogger, I think this is important information.
April 30th, 2009 at 8:21 pmMoveon is such a joke. The who reason it started was to bail out the Raper in Chief Billy Boy…hence the name “Move On.”
I noticed everything is “Move On”…with the democRATs…but…”Try and Stick it to Em” on the Republicans!
Just like the NOW crowd…no creditability!!!
April 30th, 2009 at 8:23 pmWhy all the furor over Bybee?
What specifically has he done that would justify impeachment?
April 30th, 2009 at 9:34 pmFrom wiki:
So what has Bybee done since becoming a judge that warrants impeachment?
April 30th, 2009 at 9:41 pmMoveOn says:
Is this the best they’ve got??? Looks like a political witch hunt, not grounds for impeachment, right?
April 30th, 2009 at 9:43 pmHey Tim vacudick, it is
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT TREASON
Violating the Geneva Conventions is treason, since one takes an oath to uphold and defend the very law.
TREASON
HANG ALL THE MUDDAFUGGAS HIGH
April 30th, 2009 at 10:37 pmObama is going to make this a LONG, LONG ripping bandaid off scenario. This will SEAR (SERE) the mental consciousness for the ages when it is over. And we will see georgie, dickie, donnie, condi, wolfie and the rest of the lost HUNG.
Ah, there ain’t no going forward while we have this shitstain of history clawing at our mamory.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:41 pmmemory
April 30th, 2009 at 10:42 pm[damn fingers]
Alecto,
Good to see that you want Ms. Pelosi and the other Democrats in Congress hang as well because THEY ALLOWED it to continue.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:05 pm.
Q U E S T I O N:
If Bybee is found guilty and removed and/or resigns because of these memos…
… What does that make those that instituted policies based on these memos?
WHICH CAME FIRST…
… THE TORTURE or THE MEMOS?
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May 1st, 2009 at 2:47 amTim Vaculik Says:
What specifically has he done that would justify impeachment?
Apparently, he signed off on a memo that says torture is legal.
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Tim Vaculik Says:
So what has Bybee done since becoming a judge that warrants impeachment?
Actually you can impeach somebody for any or no reason. If it turns out they never should have been confirmed due to evidence that was classified at the time, that sounds like reasonable grounds to me.
Let’s flip it – imagine this was a Clinton appointee, and after he gets confirmed, Ken Starr uncovers evidence that this person had been involved with tampering with files, concealing evidence, stealing from banks, raping kittens, what-have-you. And he’s sitting on a federal bench. You’d want him impeached then, wouldn’t you? Even before a criminal investigation had completed?
(Tim: So what has Bybee done while wearing a judicial robe on a Monday that warrants impeachment? While standing on one leg?)
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Tim Vaculik Says:
Looks like a political witch hunt, not grounds for impeachment, right?
If all y’all got is throwing the words “witch hunt” around, you’ve already lost. Back that up.
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Tim Vaculik Says:
Good to see that you want Ms. Pelosi and the other Democrats in Congress hang as well because THEY ALLOWED it to continue.
So did you. It went on while you were an American citizen. If you spread the blame around thinly enough, there’s no blame left on anybody, huh? Blaming everyone is the same as blaming no one. How about we focus on the people who committed crimes, and deal with the bystanders after?
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Bybee, Yoo and others MANIPULATED our legal language to allow for the torture Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz et al so desperately wanted. Seems they then got W to agree that all of it sounded great to him so he too gave his go-ahead orders to implement torture. They all deserve to pay the highest price for their ‘very willing’ actions.
Bybee told friends some time back he ‘regreted’ his signature on the memos, however when asked the other day, he said he had ‘no regrets’. With no regrets, he should be impeached.
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May 2nd, 2009 at 12:51 amMadasHelinVA Says:
Bybee, Yoo and others MANIPULATED our legal language to allow for the torture Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz et al so desperately wanted.
This is an interesting point, here.
Let’s say you’re working at the OLC, and in your inbox comes a request from the White House: “give us a memo outlining a working legal definition of what’s torture and what’s not.” OK, fair enough. So you crack open some law books, you look at Nuremburg, the Geneva Conventions, other laws and treaties and various relevant legal rulings, and you write upsomething that fits in with what’s been commonly considered to be torture and what’s not.
You would not come up with anything like what Bybee & Co. came up with. Not by a long shot. Not in a million years.
To come up with that at some point, somebody must have told them what had already been done, what they wanted to do, and what they wanted the official memo to say. Any record of that order/request/information would constitute proof that they weren’t just drafting legal opinions in good faith, but were rather joining a criminal conspiracy to break the law.
I have no doubt that such a trail exists, even if it’s just in Cheney’s Yahoo! email account.
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MadasHelinVA Says:
Bybee told friends some time back he ‘regreted’ his signature on the memos, however when asked the other day, he said he had ‘no regrets’. With no regrets, he should be impeached.
He’d just start regretting again. Fact is, it doesn’t matter how he feels about it. All that matters is what he did.
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:01 am