Reply #15: He also doesn't think Nixon should have been impeached!

[MadisonProgressive]

G - Some lawmakers have promised to investigate Bush and his no longer secret domestic spying program. If they determine that he broke the law, will they move to impeach him? Let's bring in the judge.
Just on pure legal grounds, never mind George Bush, anybody, anybody does this, is it an impeachable offense?

N - I don't think it is an impeachable offense, and I spent a chunk of the afternoon reading the Nixon evidence - not the Clinton evidence, it's fresh in my mind, it wasn't that long ago. The thread in the Nixon evidence was a strike at the security of the republic, the president simply not doing his job at all. The charges against Nixon were similar to the charges against Bush with respect to the domestic spying: using electronic surveillance without a search warrant. I don't think that was an impeachable offense then and I don't think it's an impeachable offense now.