I think it's time to storm Washington with pitchforks and torches.

Indictments look just like pitchforks to the guilty and impeachment glows brightly like fire.

Impeach. It's the Constitution, stupid!

I wish I could say I'm shocked by the bribery charges, but it's par for the course with these people.

The White House recently released an executive order on 17 July allowing the Treasury Department to block or seize the assets of any US person or entity who might threaten the stability of Iraq through "acts of violence."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html

This may not be an "act of violence" but you can damn sure make the argument that overcharging the US government is dangerous to the stability of Iraq, as it hinders the ability of US forces to do their job.

How much do you want to bet that execs at Eagle Logistics are thrown to the wolves, and that Cheney's buddies at KBR get away clean?

The American People got the best government that money could and did buy!

You can report this story with resorting to charges of "treason" -- which is an over-used and blatantly political crime usually invoked by the right wing against anyone progressive or simply free-thinking enough to not blindly follow government edicts.

The plot by members of the German general staff during WWII to kill Hitler was called treason; so were the acts of Polish military officers who leaked Warsaw Pact war plans to the West during the Cold War. Yet most people reading this would probably applaud those two examples as heroic acts motivated, at great personal risk, by a higher ideal.

The whole notion of treason -- basically, threatening the "security" of the state as defined by whatever government happens to be in power (but usually more accurately defined as threatening the interests of the ruling regime in maintaining its grip on power) -- should be abandoned once and for all.

Any genuine crime described as "treason" -- for example, in this case, bribery -- can easily, and (as in this case) deservedly, be prosecuted under existing laws; "treason" is nothing more than a political label assigned to offenses to allow a form of double jeopardy for the crime of disloyalty to the state.

One can imagine a scenario under an even more fascist U.S. regime than the current administration wherein what the government would call treason would be properly seen by an independent and democratic citizenry as the only alternative to dicatorship ...

thank you , sir!