Reply #8: This is the paragraph Dean asked Lindorff to correct, I think.

[madfloridian]

We posted something here about it at the time..saying it was not true. Lindorff knows exactly what he is doing. He has been corrected on this by many.

http://www.counterpunch.com/lindorff03072006.html
"While researching our book on impeachment (The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing George W. Bush from Office, St. Martin's Press, due out in late April), my co-author Barbara Olshanshky and I have found that members of Congress-even firebrands like Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)-have been strong-armed behind the scenes by the Democratic National Committee not to introduce an impeachment bill in the House. Rep. John Conyers, the ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, where such a bill would be considered, has submitted three bills that relate to impeachment-a proposal for a special committee to investigate possible impeachable crimes by the administration and bills to censure both the president and the vice president for refusing to answer questions from Congress on impeachment-related issues--but that's as far as the Democratic congressional leadership is willing to go."

Is this the one Dean refers to? Is Lindorff going to put this stuff into his book, or has he? Where was truth end and just plain lies begin on the right or on the left. This is just a lie.

These are Lindorff's credentials. He owes it to us to present more truth than this. His credentials are worthy, his criticisms of the DNC are not worthy, they are unwarranted.

This is the author:
"Dave Lindorff, grudging treasurer of the Philly
Local of the NWU, has been a journalist since 1973
and a full-time freelancer since 1979. A founder
of the National Writers Union, he was active in the
union's formative years in New York, as a member of
the New York local's steering committee.

A writer for such publications as Salon.com,
Business Week, The Nation, In These Times, and
others, he is also author of "Marketplace Medicine:
The Rise of the For-Profit Hospital Chains" (Bantam
1992). He recently published "Killing Time," the first
independent book about the death-penalty case of
Philadelphia journalist and former Black Panther
activist Mumia Abu-Jamal (Common Courage Press, 2002)."
http://www.nwuphilly.org/dave.html