Can we impeach now?

On Wednesday the Oversight Committee approved a subpoena for testimony from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice regarding the assertion that Iraq sought to import uranium from Niger. Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman opened debate on the subpoena for the testimony of Secretary Rice during the committee meeting on Wednesday.

Chairman Waxman: “The Administration’s claim that Iraq could pose a nuclear threat was at the center of its case for war. Indeed this assertion was key to the decisions of many Members of Congress, including myself, to support the resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq. It therefore raised enormously serious questions when Congress and the public learned that there were flaws, not just minor ones but serious flaws, with the intelligence underpinning the Administration’s nuclear case.”

This goes to show that when Bush supporters claim that Congress had the same intelligence that the President or even the Intelligence Committee members did, when they voted for the AUMF, that that intelligence was cherry-picked and blatantly and knowingly FALSE. And the CIA tried to warn them twice in memos and once via telephone call. Those warnings were ignored by Rice and Hadley.

But why stop at Condoleezza Rice with the subpoena? Get Stephen Hadley under oath too.