High Crimes

Suggestion that McClellan's tell-all offers new evidence for impeachment. I don't think it does. Lying to the American public, the world, and Congress is not a crime. It's just a way that one can choose to run a presidency, however bad and destructive it may be.

In writing Article II, Section Four, George Mason had favored impeachment for "maladministration" (incompetence), but James Madison, who favored impeachment only for criminal behavior, carried the issue. [1] Hence, cases of impeachment may be undertaken only for "treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors."

Update: OK, maybe lying to Congress would be a crime in this instance. But relying on cooked intelligence from an office that was specially set up to cook intelligence is different from lying about intelligence (that's why they created the office to cook the intelligence).