{"id":192285,"date":"2009-04-21T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/21\/the-new-york-times-calls-for-jay-bybees-impeachment\/"},"modified":"2009-04-21T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T22:34:00","slug":"the-new-york-times-calls-for-jay-bybees-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/21\/the-new-york-times-calls-for-jay-bybees-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Calls for Jay Bybee&#8217;s Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/19\/opinion\/19sun1.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">whole editorial<\/a>, it&#8217;s brutal, and calls for a thorough investigation of everyone who conspired on this, and the penultimate &#8216;graph calls for the Congress to remove Jay Bybee as a federal court judge:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>These memos make it clear that Mr. Bybee is unfit for a job that requires legal judgment and a respect for the Constitution. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Congress should impeach him.<\/span> And if the administration will not conduct a thorough investigation of these issues, then Congress has a constitutional duty to hold the executive branch accountable. If that means putting Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales on the stand, even Dick Cheney, we are sure Americans can handle it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I do not expect Mr. Bybee to go quietly though.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, he&#8217;ll rat on his fellow conspirators, but I would not expect that either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the whole editorial, it&#8217;s brutal, and calls for a thorough investigation of everyone who conspired on this, and the penultimate &#8216;graph calls for the Congress to remove Jay Bybee as a federal court judge: These memos make it clear that Mr. Bybee is unfit for a job that requires legal judgment and a respect &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,1064,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-media","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}