{"id":6824,"date":"2009-01-18T13:54:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T21:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6824"},"modified":"2009-01-18T17:33:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T01:33:14","slug":"pelosi-weighs-prosectuion-do-we-have-a-right-to-ignore-violations-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6824","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Weighs Prosecution: &#8216;Do We Have a Right to Ignore&#8217; Violations of Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/NancyPelosi_ProsecuteBush_011809.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Her words are more impressive when read, than when seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2008\/Pelosi_wants_investigation_of_Bush_officials_0118.html\">the video<\/a>, I think. Nonetheless, both seem to reveal a Pelosi at a bit of a crossroads. Perhaps. Could the woman who took impeachment &#8220;off the table&#8221; be ready to now move in a different direction?<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">In a Sunday morning interview with Fox&#8217; Chris Wallace, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi signaled that she&#8217;s open to backing prosecutions of Bush administration officials that may arise from congressional hearings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we have to learn from the past and we cannot let the politicizing of, for example, the Justice Department to go unreviewed,&#8221; said Pelosi, . &#8220;The past is prologue, we learn from it&#8230; I want to see the truth come forth.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;I think you look at each item and see what is a violation of the law and do we even have a right to ignore it,&#8221; Pelosi said. &#8220;We have a contempt of Congress against members of the executive branch who withheld information from us.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The words that impress me most there: &#8220;You look at each item and see what is a violation of law and <b>do we even have a right to ignore it.<\/b>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i><b>UPDATE:<\/b><\/i> Jason Leopold has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pubrecord.org\/nationworld\/632-in-surprise-reversal-pelosi-now-signals-support-for-bush-probes.html\">more at Public Record&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her words are more impressive when read, than when seen in the video, I think. Nonetheless, both seem to reveal a Pelosi at a bit of a crossroads. Perhaps. Could the woman who took impeachment &#8220;off the table&#8221; be ready to now move in a different direction? In a Sunday morning interview with Fox&#8217; Chris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,405,340],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-bush-legacy","category-nancy-pelosi","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6824"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}