Bush Getting "Defence Ducks" in Order?

As I said earlier - the impeachment drumbeats have quietly begun to sound.

And in the backrooms, the decider is apparently preparing to become the defender.

From CNN: President uses secret memo to block access to White house visitor logs

The chief counsel to another Washington-based group suing to get Secret Service logs calls the creation of the memo "a political maneuver couched as a legal one."

"It appears the White House is actually manufacturing evidence to further its own agenda," Anne Weismann, a Justice Department lawyer for 19 years and now chief counsel to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said Friday.
The White House and the Secret Service declined to comment.

From the Washington Post: White House Counsel Hariet Miers resigns - Bush to "lawyer up"

Republican advisers have been telling the White House to be ready for war, and many cited Miers as the wrong general. "The White House knew they needed to get a tough street fighter - that's what this is about,'' said one such adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve access to the White House.

The advice, according to this person, could be summed up this way: "You guys better lawyer up, and lawyer up in the right way. You better understand the need and the peril and the urgency. . . . You need somebody as tough as [Clinton aides] Harold Ickes or Bruce Lindsey. Because they're coming for you.

And the Democratic Party has now controlled congress for all of two days.

Fasten your seatbelts.

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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