Elizabeth de la Vega:
How to Impeach the President
Ways and Means to Remove Bush and Cheney

Jerry Interviews Elizabeth




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US vs. Bush - Former Federal Prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega tells Jerry about her case, which is presented in the book as if it were a plan to bring charges against President Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney by a grand jury. She states that the case is a simple one of fraud, very similar in nature to the recent Federal charges in the Enron case. This fast pace interview lays out the reasons and the background of why this book was written, and Jerry talks about his petition to seat a grand jury to investigate the President.

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Elizabeth de la Vega, a former federal prosecutor, was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Minneapolis as well as a member of the Organized Crime Strike Force and Branch Chief in San Jose, California. Since her retirement in 2004, she has been a regular contributor to Tomdispatch. Her articles have also appeared in Nation, LA Times, Salon and Mother Jones.

Elizabeth de la Vega speaking in De La Guerra Plaza in Santa Barbara, California on Dec. 10, 2006, to the Santa Barbara Impeachment Coalition.

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Review From Publishers Weekly

By revisiting public statements, official documents and journalistic reports from the months leading up to the Iraq invasion, de la Vega builds a legal case that President Bush and top members of his administration engaged in a conspiracy to "deceive the American public and Congress into supporting the war." Drawing on her experience as a federal prosecutor, as well as the work of scholars and legal experts, she brings a well-honed legal perspective to the issue. She presents her argument in transcript form as a hypothetical weeklong presentation to a grand jury, including extensive testimony from three fictional investigative agents. Despite her somewhat specialized approach, the author clearly defines the legal terms and issues and avoids jargon. If anything, the book feels casual and straightforward to a fault: awkward asides about room temperature and coffee breaks, meant to humanize de la Vega's hypothetical grand jurors, are contrived; in explaining some of her claims, she relies too much on an analogy to the Enron fraud. Still, whenever she focuses on the issues at hand—most compellingly in her final analysis of the administration's spurious claims about Iraq's nuclear weapons program—de la Vega makes a persuasive case. (Dec. 1, 2006) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.