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Originally Posted by Necrosis
The firing of attorneys continues to be brought up by Democrats. Would it have been worse had Bush fired ALL of the US attorneys? What if he had removed one of them right in the middle of an investigation of a high-ranking member of the House?
Would that be grounds for impeachment?
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Nearly every Democrat on the investigating committees have said that Bush had the right to fire any US attorney at any time, other than to impede an investigation (of a member of the House or any citizen), which would in fact, be an impeachable offense.
The Judiciary Committees investigations were to determine if such actions were to interfere with a criminal investigation and/or to review the manner in which this unprecedented politicization of the DoJ by Bush was undertaken, including the conflicting reasons given for the firings, the lies about the performance of the attorneys (nearly all had "outstanding evaluations), the role the WH political office (ie Rove) played in the firings (were the firings requested by members of Congress in communications with Rove and/or Gonzales - a violation of Congressional ethics rules), and to determine if the firings were to further a political agenda (ie bogus voter fraud charges against Democratic organizations) rather than pursue the rule of law.
There are plenty of other reasons that merit an impeachment inquiry of Bush/Cheney, although not of Rove, who as a political appointee, is not subject to impeachment.