Jesse Jackson: Bush Spied on Me

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is claiming that President Bush illegally spied on him and should be held accountable with impeachment hearings.

Asked to respond to reports that U.S. citizens were being "spied" on by the White House the same way Dr. Martin Luther King was in the 1960s, Jackson said Monday: "Well, and so am I. We have gone from being lied to about the war to being spied on for protesting the war."

Speaking to Democracy Now Radio's Amy Goodman, he recalled that as a member of Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, "our staffers - our wires were tapped. We were followed."

Jackson said that 40 years later, "There is no doubt that they’re having an enemies list of those who protest."

"Last year, those who disagreed with the Bush campaign were on the enemies list for I.R.S. investigations," the civil rights leader insisted.

"This is an impeachable offense," Jackson declared. "And the Congress must not spare the integrity of our country in having hearings on just how much violence he did to the law in this
act, this unauthorized unconstitutional act."