FROM DETROIT NEWS

HEAD: Conyers blasted on Bush probe
SUB-HEAD: Critics slam the Detroit Democrat for not holding full-scale
impeachment hearings.

WASHINGTON -- On the eve of Rep. John Conyers much-anticipated examination
of the Bush presidency, impeachment advocates Thursday blasted the Detroit
Democrat who chairs the House Judiciary Committee for not holding full-scale
impeachment hearings.

In a hint of the drama likely to unfold at today's daylong hearing on
"executive power and its constitutional limitations," anti-war activist
Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, painted Conyers as gutless for
agreeing to Speaker Nancy Pelosi's long-standing opposition to the
impeachment drive being pushed by the left wing of her Democratic Party.

"Somebody with integrity and courage would go ahead and do it because it's
the right thing to do," Sheehan said of Conyers at a news conference.

Conyers, echoing Pelosi, has said impeachment is off the table. Instead,
since he became chairman of the Judiciary Committee after Democrats regained
control of the Congress in the 2006 elections, Conyers has held numerous
oversight hearings into Bush practices.