Alter: Bybee ‘pretty clearly, by some lights,’ violated his oath to uphold the Constitution.

This afternoon on MSNBC, host David Shuster spoke with Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter, who explained that while the popular political discourse has focused on one of two possible courses to resolve the Bush administration’s illegal acts of torture (a congressional or independent truth commission or criminal prosecutions), a third option also exists: impeachment. Alter noted that Federal Judge Jay Bybee is the only Bush administration torture architect still in public office and can be held to account through impeachment proceedings for his failing to “uphold the constitution”:

ALTER: There’s also a third route which would focus on the only one of these folks from the Bush White House who’s in public office now and that’s Federal Judge Jay Bybee. You could see, conceivably, a movement to impeach Judge Bybee. These other folks, there’s no indication that they violated an oath to uphold the constitution in the way he did, or if they have, they are no longer in a position of public trust, the way he is.

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