Does executive privilege include starting wars based on a false premise?

Question

Or is this an impeachible offense?

Answer 1

executive privilege is only valid in national security situations where oversight can be clearly shown to impede the executive office's national security obligations.
Nixon vs United States.

Answer 2

The straight answer to your first question is yes------I guess. I am sure this is not the answer you wanted, but the decision-making process the president uses in the execution of his office are covered under executive privilege. But, I don't think this is at all what happened.

The straight answer to your second question is yes, also. But, that' s a political question for Congress (specifically, the House of Representataives) to decide as to what is or is not an impeachable offense. I think it decidedly IS an impeachable offense to doctor the intelligence used to justify a war, then present the knowingly-doctored intell to Congress and the American people to get them to do what you want them to do. This is what I think happened.

Answer 3

I woulda thought it was an impeachable offense. kinda makes one wonder what's up with the Dems.

Are they just still so scared of the now nonexistant republican majority in the country? Or are they really just the left wing of the corporate party?

Answer 4

There are many impeachable offenses. We could start with warrantless wiretapping in violation of both FISA and the Fourth Amendment and go on from there, certainly including lying to America in order to start an unnecessary (and seemingly endless) war on a country that had not attacked us.

Answer 5

Yet another shining example of your intelligence (rather lack there of).

I suppose that you don't watch the news or read the constitution. Congress started the war, not Bush.

Answer 6

Now I remember where I've seen you!! Sitting on the front porch in that scene from the movie 'Deliverance' Right?

Answer 7

what world are you living in?

Answer 8

see my previous answer.

Answer 9

start with your democrat controlled congress, flush em like the turds they are

Answer 10

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