Impeachment Hearings: The White House Prepares for the Worst:

"The Bush administration is bracing for impeachment hearings in Congress.

'A coalition in Congress is being formed to support impeachment,' an administration source said."

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"Administration sources said the charges are expected to include false reports to Congress as well as Mr. Bush's authorization of the National Security Agency to engage in electronic surveillance inside the United States without a court warrant. This included the monitoring of overseas telephone calls and e-mail traffic to and from people living in the United States without requisite permission from a secret court."

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"Our arithmetic shows that a majority of the committee could vote against the president," the source said. "If we work hard, there could be a tie."

Now, Insight is a Washington Times subsidary...So what might this mean?

MyDD suggests 3 alternatives

"One of my first thoughts -- stemming from the idea that Republicans who want to investigate Bush's warrantless domestic spying program "may not be aware they could be helping to lay the groundwork for a Democratic impeachment campaign" -- is that this is a thinly veiled threat against Congressional Republicans. It's true that if the White House successfully shuts down an investigation, impeachment becomes less likely.

It's also possible that this is just an exercise in expectations management. If there is no investigation, or if there is and it's a Republican whitewash, impeachment likely won't happen. And if that's the case, Bush could come out looking like a winner, without ever having to actually fight.

The third possibility is my favorite. The Bush White House knows they broke the law. They know they've been caught red-handed. They realize impeachment is a likely outcome. I don't know which comes closer to the truth, but it's significant that the Republicans at Insight are taking the possibility of impeachment very seriously."