Republican Lawmaker Warns Bush of Impeachment

Washington, DC (TLS). With outrage reaching a fever pitch on Capitol Hill over the government's admission that it lied to convict two Border Patrol Agents, one Republican lawmaker is warning President Bush of impeachment proceedings. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA, warned the President in a news conference late Wednesday that if the two incarcerated Agents are murdered or die in prison, the President himself will be held personally responsible.

Republican lawmakers have demanded the full and free Presidential pardon of the two Agents who did the job they were hired to do to protect the nation's borders from illegal aliens. So far, the President has been dragging his feet, and White House spokesman Tony Snow has persistently stonewalled on questions related to the government's mishandling of the case, including fabricating and falsifying evidence, lying to a court of law, lying to Congress, and incarcerating two men the government knew to be innocent of the charges.

Unless the President immediately takes the steps necessary to release the two men from prison and launch a full, relentless investigation of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, then I am quite certain Republicans will do the job Democrats have threatened in the past. They will launch impeachment hearings against the President.

All of this, of course, would be unnecessary if the President steps up to the plate, admits that people within the government engaged in willful deception, take steps to prosecute the guilty, and releases the innocent Agents from prison. This would clear the President's name and reputation and avert pending impeachment proceedings launched by members of his own party.

As it stands now, however, the President is implicated in the entire mess due to his close ties to the main players. If the President was unaware of the corruption of his cronies in this case, then he needs to say so and undertake the necessary steps to rid the government of their shameful presence.

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