[lbo-talk] Gore: wiretapping could be impeachable offense

Gary Mongiovi MONGIOVG at stjohns.edu
Tue Jan 17 08:27:58 PST 2006


The most significant thing about this story is that an ABC reporter had the spunk to ask Gore whether the wiretapping might justify impeachment. This might just be be a blip, or it might be the thin edge of a wedge. Anybody know anyting about the reporter who asked the question, Ted Davis?

Gary Mongiovi

Asked by ABC News following his speech whether President Bush's domestic spying program constituted an impeachable offense, Gore said it might be and pointed to one of the three Articles of Impeachment that the House Judiciary Committee approved against President Nixon on July 27, 1974.

"That's a legal determination for the Congress to make," Gore told ABC News. "But Article II of the impeachment charges against President Nixon was warrantless wiretapping that the President said was 'necessary' for national security."

"It can be" an impeachable offense, he added.

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