Will A Sitting President Finally Be HeldAccountable For High Crimes andMisdemeanors?

Eric BlairInfowars.comMarch 11, 2012

Impeachment proceedings beginin the House and the Senate overObama’s brazen use of aggressivemilitary force withoutcongressional authority.

Since 2005, Veterans for Peaceand others have been calling for theimpeachment of the sitting presidentfor war crimes. After their demandsto lawmakers to uphold the rule oflaw against Bush were largelyignored, they renewed their effortto impeach Obama once hecontinued to bomb sovereignnations without congressionalapproval. Now, lawmakers seem tohave finally decided to take the ruleof law and Separation of Powersseriously.

Obama will face impeachment overhis failure to seek congressionalauthorization before launching offensive military action in Libya last year. Official impeachmentproceedings have now been filed in both the House and Senate.

Last week, North Carolina Representative Walter Jones filed an Impeachment Resolution in theHouse H.CON.RES.107.IH stating “Expressing the sense of Congress that the use of offensivemilitary force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congressconstitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 of theConstitution.”

“Whereas the cornerstone of the Republic is honoring Congress’s exclusive power to declare warunder article I, section 8, clause 11 of the Constitution:

Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That it is

the sense of Congress that, except inresponse to an actual or imminentattack against the territory of theUnited States, the use of offensivemilitary force by a President withoutprior and clear authorization of an Actof Congress violates Congress’sexclusive power to declare war underarticle I, section 8, clause 11 of theConstitution and therefore constitutesan impeachable high crime andmisdemeanor under article II, section 4of the Constitution.”

President Barack Obama becomes onlythe third sitting president to face impeachment following Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton.Johnson was impeached for illegally dismissing an office holder without the Senate’s approval,and Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice. Both were acquitted by the Senate.

Significantly, President Obama faces much more serious charges than his impeached predecessorsand it’s still unclear what legal defense he will use to diffuse the charges as the legal basis for hisunilateral action has been inconsistent and vague from the beginning of the Libya assault.

Prior to military operations in Libya, the Justice Department advised the Administration on thelegality of using unauthorized force in Libya in a 14-page memo titled Authority to Use MilitaryForce in Libya, which states vaguely:

We conclude…that the use of military force in Libya was supported by sufficientlyimportant national interests to fall within the President’sconstitutional power. At the same time, turning to thesecond element of the analysis, we do not believe thatanticipated United States operations in Libya amountedto “war” in the constitutional sense necessitatingcongressional approval under the Declaration of Warclause.

The memo goes on explain why the alleged situation on theground in Libya was in U.S.’s national interest, citesprevious times when the U.S. military was deployedwithout congressional approval and claims the mission wasan international support mission with no deployed groundtroops to justify their conclusion.

However, in no way were national interests under an“imminent” threat by hostilities in Libya as required by theWar Powers Act, and supporting an international mission isirrelevant to the Act. Furthermore, Obama has maintained

the legal defense that American involvement fellshort of full-blown hostilities even after hostilitiesexceeded the 90-day limit of unauthorized use offorce afforded under the War Powers Act.

The New York Times quotes directly from the 38-page report Obama sent to concerned lawmakersafter the 90-day deadline “U.S. operations do notinvolve sustained fighting or active exchanges offire with hostile forces, nor do they involve U.S.ground troops.”

Therefore, the Administration claims it wasn’t areal military conflict that Congress should concernitself with. However, at the same time, the WhiteHouse acknowledged that the cost to U.S.taxpayers was well over $1 billion for these non-hostile military activities.

Coincidentally, on the same day the impeachment resolution was filed, Obama’s DefenseSecretary Leon Panetta acknowledged that the Libya War did indeed constituted military combat,but claimed the legal basis for spending U.S. tax dollars on war rested in “internationalpermission”: Panetta suggests OK from UN more important than Congress Approval whenit comes to War? VIDEO BELOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aecXpZPhrrM

This impeachment comes on the heals of other Administration officials giving equally flimsy legaljustifications for assassinating U.S. citizens without due process. Where, also last week, AttorneyGeneral Holder sought to clarify this tyrannical authority in a speech at NorthwesternUniversity by claiming “judicial process” was not the same as “due process” under the Constitution.Yet, the Fifth Amendment clearly states “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, orotherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury” And asWikipedia defines due process:

Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights thatare owed to a person. Due process balances the power of law of the land and protectsindividual persons from it. When a government harms a person without following theexact course of the law, this constitutes a due-process violation, which offendsagainst the rule of law.

The Obama Administration has clearly “offended against the rule of law”, and it appears his onlydefense lies in somehow changing the definition of words. It’s not a strong legal position to be inand it seems for the first time in history a sitting president may be held accountable for high crimesand misdemeanors.

World Government = Global Death Infowars.comMarch 11, 2012

The elites establishing world governmenthave openly stated a plan to exterminate 6billion people. The system is not run bypeople who are just corrupt, it is controlledby blood lusting control freaks who areunspeakably evil.

World Government = Global Death! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJGUZpo1ijM

Evolving Global Financial Crisis. Selling“Foreclosed Homes”

Bob Chapman

International ForecasterMarch 11, 2012

The government is preparing to packageand sell foreclosed homes. We do notknow what discount to the current marketthere will be but you can guess it will be20% or more. This event will cause homeprices to trend lower dependent onwhether the houses are put up for sale orrented. These homes will only be availableto big buyers such as hedge funds andothers with enormous amounts of capital.It is expected that the homes will be sold inlots of 5,000 to 10,000 and the minimumbid would be $1 billion. This is corporatistfascists busy at work. You could call it thelargest transfer of wealth from the privateto the public sector in history. Fannie Maeand Freddie Mac could be sellers of250,000 or more homes with more in thewings, perhaps another 250,000. Can youimage what further damage that would do

to home prices? In the auction processthe big winners will be the big NYCmoney center legacy banks, hedge fundsand other mega investors. Othersplaying a big part will be managementand marketing contractors thatpresently manage governmentproperties. The owners and officers ofthese firms are former high-rankinggovernment officials. The goal is to rentthese residences, creating cash flow andthen roll the bundles into REITS, realestate investment trusts. At thatjuncture the public can then participate

as investors.

We have friends who are still alive that flew US bombers in WWII. We mention this becausewriting about Europe and the world financial and economic situation is like being in one of thosebombers and you are being thrown around not being able to know when the next shock will hit.

All of Europe is tensing up and we see noncompliance in Greece, Portugal and again in Spain asthe new PM Mariano Rajoy stands alone in his refusal of the dictates of the European commissionby refusing to comply with austerity demands. He says he will ignore the deficit target of 4.4% ofGDP for 2012 and has set his own target of 5.8%. that figure in 2011 was 8.5%. His plan shouldproduce a 1.7% contraction in 2012. He said this is not the 1930s. Spain does not stand ready tobe humiliated by the German Chancellor. We are at a point that we refuse to be the subject ofheavy handed meddling. Remember, Spain is suffering the worst depression since the 1640s.

Ten years ago we can only remember one other European journalist exposing the scam thatGoldman Sachs had pulled for Greece and Italy to falsely qualify them for euro zone membership.Everyone else looked the other way and now we found out that this is why both countries are inserious debt problems. Mind you, this was all done in secret but European insiders knew whatwas going on and looked the other way. They wanted the exports and for the euro zone to be thefoundation for world government. Goldman disguised a $793 million loan as a derivativetransaction. Now the bill for the Greek government from Goldman is $6.8 billion. Goldman andthe Greek politicians sold out the Greek people. That year Goldman made 12% of their revenuesfrom Greece. Worse yet Greek authorities didn’treport the transaction to Eurostat. Simply put thisdeal was handled on both sides by criminals.Hopefully, as he has promised when elected, Mr.Samaras will investigate back to 1974 to see whobroke the laws. That, of course, would include themid-1980s when George Papandreau’s father waspresident and thoroughly looted the country ofbillions. As we write we are still a day away fromprivate investor acceptance of the debt swap sucha debt swap is supposed to be neutral in as much

as all it does is move up debt repayment on a more limited basis, but doesn’t recognize that underany circumstances Greece can never afford to pay it off. We understand that the Greek debt is apittance in a worldwide sovereign debt market of $40 trillion, but it will in part affect the value ofbonds issued in Europe, because of losses and contingent liability. Worse yet, the ECB tells usthey can change the rules anytime they please. The ECB has stated they are not taking any losseson these bonds. We wonder what will happen on March 20th when $18.4 billion in Greek debtcomes due, which the Greeks cannot pay? Selling this and other PIIG debt is not going to be easywhen the ECB has immunized itself from loss. This is as fragile as markets get. Waiting in thewings are five more countries in serious trouble. If Greece defaults, Ireland and Portugal willquickly follow. After that it is $4 trillion to bail out Spain and Italy. We suppose the Fed willprovide those funds and inflation will rocket, unless, of course, the European economy collapses.

In the middle of all this is the financial nerve center, the ECB, which over a recent 10-week periodhas dumped $1.4 trillion into 800 banks courtesy of the Fed and the American taxpayer. Thecollateral for these 1%, 3-year loans, was piles of near worthless debt instruments. You could goso far as to call these liars loans.

What the Europeans in their socialist mindset have done has cast Europe, the UK and US into acauldron that could take down the entire financial system. Few are thinking about the grindingnature of these years of financial and economic turmoil and the price it has cost Europe and willcontinually cost Europe. Europe and its Monarch bankers figure if they cannot fix or escape thiscalamity, they will take everyone else along with them as well. Both the ECB and the Fed havehorrible balance sheets, but they could get worse. The bottom line here is if the euro goes under,so could the pound, the US dollar and many other currencies. Remember, 60% of sovereignreserves are in US dollars. If the dollar falls they’ll be negativity impacted as well. After the $1.4trillion Fed infusion bankers feel smug and comfortable again. We say, not so fast. This game isnowhere near over. Greek orders for banks to join the debt swap have brought in SociétéGénérale, France’s second biggest bank, Uni Credit Union and Assicurazioni Generali. Greeceexpects the bondholders to accept the offer, but if it fails the official sector will not financeGreece’s economic program, then Greece will have to restructure its debt. These are the samebankers who just borrowed billion, so they wouldn’t fall into bankruptcy. Supposedly these arethe same lenders that will rekindle European growth. They know that is not the way it is going tohappen when European debt is unpayable.

As the ship of the EU-euro zoneheads for certain eventual disasterled by a group of 4 Bilderbergers allunelected, we have to ask ourselveshow do these things happen? Theseare the same people, among othersof their ilk that caused these

problems in the first place. They all are alumni of Goldman Sachs, which was responsible forMickey Mousing the balance sheets of Greece and Italy, which allowed them illegally to enter theeuro zone. One world government was more important.