By Neil W. McCabe ——Bio and Archives--July 30, 2013
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“In refusing to produce these papers and things Richard M. Nixon, substituting his judgment as to what materials were necessary for the inquiry, interposed the powers of the Presidency against the lawful subpoenas of the House of Representatives, thereby assuming to himself functions and judgments necessary to the exercise of the sole power of impeachment vested by the Constitution in the House of Representatives.”President Barack Obama’s press secretary James “Jay” Carney insists the White House has complied with all legitimate inquires included in subpoenas issued by the House. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., has made the exact same case in his testimony before House committees. But, this is really the same thing as Nixon deciding what information he gave up and what he did not. It has been two months since Obama’s promise to fully investigate the IRS’s predatory handling of Tea Party groups, 10 months from the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on Benghazi and two-and-half years since Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry was cut down by an AK-47 waived through to a straw purchaser for a Mexican crime gang by the ATF’s Fast and Furious team. Does anyone believe the White House is forthright in coming clean? The Republican leadership on Capitol Hill was brainwashed in a bunker somewhere in West Virginia to believe any confrontation with a Democratic president, let alone an impeachment, would be unpopular with the American people. Unfortunately, that paradigm will never be tested. But, what we do see is that the liberals running the mainstream media recognize enough similarities between the behavior of the Obama White House and what Democrats claimed in 1974 was so egregious that Nixon had to be removed from office.
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Neil W. McCabe is the editor of Human Event’s “Guns & Patriots” e-letter and was a senior reporter at the Human Events newspaper. McCabe deployed with the Army Reserve to Iraq for 15 months as a combat historian. For many years, he was a reporter and photographer for “The Pilot,” Boston’s Catholic paper. He was also the editor of two free community papers, “The Somerville (Mass.) News and “The Alewife (North Cambridge, Mass.).”