The John Conyers' Hearing on the 'Downing Street memo'

Wrapping up right now. Conyers has backed away from impeachment before. Perhaps due to looking out for his own career ambitions. A previous story I've written on this is here. My favorite Francis Boyle quote is from an interview I had with him in 2003, where he comments on Conyers:

"I'm very grateful he held the meeting. It was two hours long, and he heard me out and he heard out Ramsey Clark. Then he reached his decision."

Added Boyle: "I respect his decision and have a great deal of admiration for him. He's the ranking member of the House Judiciary, and if the Democrats take back the House, he could become chairman, so he's got a lot of things to consider."

They're on their way over to the White House now.

About the history of the impeachment articles drawn up by Boyle, I wrote the following in 2003:

"Articles 2-6 of the impeachment draft are essentially recycled from a 1991 effort to impeach Bush Sr. Article 1 was added to cover alleged violations of the U.S. Constitution by the enactment of the Patriot Act.

In 1991, Boyle served as counsel for the impeachment issue to Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez (deceased). At that time, both Boyle and Clark worked on the language of impeachment. On Jan. 16, 1991, Gonzalez introduced a resolution to impeach former President George H. W. Bush."

Update 6:03 pm

Boyle runs an impeachment website. IMPEACH BUSH NOW at http://www.impeach-bush-now.org/  A lot of the work is done by hard-working, idealistic college students he says.

Another website VOTE TO IMPEACH is here http://www.votetoimpeach.org/  This site is run by Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General, and now, Saddam Hussein's defense attorney. A notice on the site says they're mobilizing for a "massive impeachment contingent" at the "huge" September 24, 2004 anti-war march on Washington.