CONYERS: Reining in the Imperial Presidency: Lessons and Recommendations Relating to the Presidency of George W. Bush - 2009

I found an item that has slipped through my little fingers some time ago.
Have no fear!
Of course, one of those wily congressional staffers thought they could make a fast buck by stripping the legacy of John Conyers, Jr., again, by forging his name, taking his work in House Judiciary, and privatizing it on Scribd.

Here is the link, below, to his original "Works for Hire" (that is a joke for the IP community).

Reining in the Imperial Presidency: Lessons and Recommendations Relating to the Presidency of George W. Bush

Judiciary Chairman Conyers Issues Report Documenting Bush Abuses, Calling For Further Committee Investigation, Blue-Ribbon Panel, and Criminal Probes

For Immediate Release
January 13, 2009

Contact: Jonathan Godfrey, Lillian German

Dean of the U.S. House
of Representatives
John Conyers, Jr.

(Washington, D.C.) -- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. released a nearly-500 page report documenting numerous abuses and excesses of the Bush administration. The report, titled "Reining in the Imperial Presidency: Lessons and Recommendations Relating to the presidency of George W. Bush," contains 47 separate recommendations designed to restore the traditional checks and balances of our constitutional system. Recommendations include calls for continued committee investigation, a blue ribbon commission to fully investigate administration activities, and independent criminal probes.

"Even after scores of hearings, investigations, and reports, we still do not have answers to some of the most fundamental questions left in the wake of Bush’s Imperial Presidency," Conyers said. Pointing to allegations of torture and inhumane treatment, extraordinary rendition, warrantless domestic surveillance, the Valerie Plame Wilson-leak, and the U.S. attorney scandal, Conyers continued, "Investigations are not a matter of payback or political revenge – it is our responsibility to examine what has occurred and to set an appropriate baseline of conduct for future administrations."

In addition to the set of recommendations, the report contains a foreword by Chairman Conyers and detailed discussions of: the administration’s legal approach to presidential power; the politicization of the Department of Justice; the administration’s far-reaching assaults on individual liberty (including torture, extraordinary rendition, and warrantless domestic surveillance); the misuse of Executive Branch authority; the administration’s retribution against its critics; and the administration’s excessive secrecy, noncompliance with congressional oversight, and manipulation of pre-Iraq War intelligence.

(Absolutely amazing how the U.S. House Judiciary Committee is so sloppy when it comes to its national archives. Naughty, naughty!)

http://judiciary.house.gov/news/090113_1.html

The full report [487 pages on pdf]:
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/printers/110th/IPres090113.pdf

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