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According to a RawStory.com article just published the Judiciary Committee approves resolution holding Rove in contempt of Congress. "The House Judiciary Committee has voted 20-14 to approve a contempt of Congress resolution against former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove for his failure to appear after a Congressional subpoena.

Voting along party lines Wednesday morning, the committee said Rove broke the law by failing to appear at a July 10 hearing on allegations of White House influence over the Justice Department, including whether Rove encouraged prosecutions against Democrats.

The committee decision is a recommendation. It remains unclear whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will allow a final vote."

Are our House Democrats growing a spine? We can hope.

A six hour preliminary Impeachment Hearing last Friday and Now This.

IMPEACHMENT IS COMING!

John H Kennedy, Denver CO, 43 yr Democratic voter, Obama delegate to the Denver County Convention and organizer of the
Impeach Colorado Coalition ImpeachCO.com

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By Sanford Russell Jul 30th 2008 at 12:34 pm EDT (Updated Jul 30th 2008 at 12:34 pm EDT)
Why stop with Rove? There are bigger fish...

- The Justice Robert Jackson Conference for Planning the Prosecution of
High Level American War Criminals -

The event will be held September 13 & 14, 2008 in Andover, MA

We've lined nearly 20 great speakers - law professors, lawyers,
prosecutors, journalists, authors and activists.

We need your help to get the word out about the event! Please forward
this email to any interested parties. The conference website is
Link

Below, you'll find the agenda:

Jeff Demers
info@war-crimes.info


AGENDA FOR THE "JUSTICE ROBERT H. JACKSON CONFERENCE":

PLANNING FOR THE PROSECUTION OF HIGH LEVEL AMERICAN WAR CRIMINALS

September 13 - 14, 2008

Andover, Massachusetts

Registration details available at Link

"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the
punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who
possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of
it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched."

* * *

"The Charter of this Tribunal evidences a faith that the law is not only to
govern the conduct of little men, but that even rulers are, as Lord Chief
Justice Coke put it to King James, 'under God and the law.'"

* * *

"And let me make clear that while this law is first applied against German
aggressors, the law includes, and if it is to serve a useful purpose it must
condemn aggression by any other nations, including those which sit here now
in judgment."

>From Opening Statement of The Chief Prosecutor, Supreme Justice Robert H.
Jackson, at Nuremberg.


"The same disaster has now happened twice in forty years, in Viet Nam and
Iraq. It must never happen again. As at Nuremberg, we need to take steps
to insure that leaders will never do it again."


Saturday - - 9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks

Brief introductory remarks stressing that crimes and misconduct have now
occurred twice in forty years - - in Viet Nam and then again in Iraq - - and
the high level perpetrators need to be punished (as occurred at Nuremberg
and Tokyo in 1945 and 1946) in order to insure that people will not do these
things again (as the Germans and Japanese have not committed their crimes
again).

9:30 a.m. Panel Discussion And Subsequent Audience Participation On:
The

Crimes Of Torture And Degrading And Abusive Conduct, And Perpetrators and
Punishments."

10:45 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. Panel Discussion And Subsequent Audience Participation On:
"Crimes Against the Peace - - Preemptive War And Aggressive War."

12:15 noon Luncheon

1:00 p.m. Panel Discussion And Subsequent Audience Participation On:
"Murder and Other Crimes Under State Laws."

2:15 p.m. Break

2:30 p.m. Panel Discussion And Subsequent Audience Participation On:
"The Torture Team: The Actions of Bush Administration Lawyers, Their
Criminal Liabilities, And Potential Disbarment."

3:45 p.m. Break

4:00 p.m. Panel Discussion And Subsequent Audience Participation On:
"Existing And Potential Domestic, Foreign and International Court Cases On
Torture, Rendition, and War."

Sunday -- 9:00 a.m. Morning Forum I

Topic for Panel and Audience:

What must be done to make the question of prosecutions an issue in the fall
political campaign and to have the question become a significant subject in
the media and on the internet.

10:30 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m. Morning Forum II



Topics for Panel and Audience:

A. Creating an umbrella coordinating committee with representatives
from various organizations, including those that are already involved in
cases.


B. Creating a Center to keep track of and organize relevant briefs,
articles, books, opinions, facts, etc.

C. The possibility of having a Chief Prosecutor's office a la
Nuremberg.


12:00 noon Final Review and Event Summary
  
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