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By Bernard Weiner Co-Editor, The Crisis Papers Each year around the anniversary of 9/11, I summarize what we ordinary citizens have learned since that awful day in 2001. This is the seventh annual look...

Editor's Note: Following is a series of brief films made recently by Jon Gold, based on research from CooperativeResearch.org (now called historycommons.org). Excellent fact-based summaries of a number of core issues pertaining to 9/11. You...

Breaking: STILL on CSpan 1 (watch now at http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS) ... 11:53pm CST--Live poll now at MSNBC: "Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?" I'll blog live as fast as my fingers can type ... 10:30CST-- Impeachment Article #33: He's talking about 9/11! "Failure to prevent... personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President, failed in his Constitutional duties to take proper steps to protect the nation prior to Sept 11, 2001..." Talking specifics here, referring to Clarke's DAILY briefing warnings still couldn't Bush to convene get cabinet level meeting. Tenet met with President 40 times yet he still convened no meetings... Ouch... "President spent August on vacation" in spite of famous 'Bin Laden determined to strike...' PDB. "...President has acted in a manner ... subversive of constitutional government, causing manifest injury to the people of the US, wherefore President Bush is guilty, by such conduct, of an impeachable offense, warranting removal from office." (Oh yeah...!) Article #34: Together with Vice President Cheney, Bush is guilty of OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE because they obstructed investigations into the attacks on the TC and Pentagon on Sept 11, 2001. Took strong steps to thwart any and all attempts... Article #35: Endangering health of first responders--recklessly endangered the health of first responders and residents at location of the former World Trade Center in NYC. Referring to damning EPA report from August, showing air was NOT "safe to breathe" in spite of assurances to the contrary. White House "convinced" EPA to add reassuring statements and to delete cautionary ones from press releases/statements issued immediately after 9/11 and in weeks following ... White House role in EPA public communications re. WTC conditions described in 9/12/01 email from Assistant Director of EPA to senior officials stating, "All statements to media should be cleared through the National Security Council before they are released." Giving statistics about how bad is the health of cleanup workers and residents because of the actions of Bush! approx 10:50 CST -- Explanation (some of which I missed): Rule 9, Resolution from floor as question of privileges of the house has immediate precedence only within a time designated by the chair (within two days?)... (note: for more info on privileged resolutions, see http://www.impeachbush.tv/impeach/privilege.html) form of Resolution will appear in the Record at this point. Chair will not determine whether it constitutions Resolution of Privilege. Kucinich: Requests unaninimous consent that following today's business, the following members address house for 5 minutes to discuss this issue and add remarks: Cummings (MD), Wolsey (CA), Defazio (OR), Captor (OH). Ordered. House adjourned until tomorrow morning. * * * * * * We will post much more tomorrow, from other sources. But for tonight, this is happy news! Clip: "Bob Fertik, president of Democrats.com, one of the groups pushing for impeachment congratulated Kucinich on his "historic leadership." "We've waited seven years to find one Member of Congress brave enough to stand up for our Constitution, for which generations of Americans have fought and died," Fertik said. "We are thrilled and honored that Dennis Kucinich has chosen to be that one genuine patriot."