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Is he an Ex-minister because he's dead and no longer a minister? The agent was still an agent when he performed the crime. It is disgenuous to say he's an ex-U

• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > The agent was still an agent when he performed the crime. Which would be relevant if the headline was about the commission of the crime, and not the conviction. He was not an agent at the time of his conviction, and had not been for some time. Reporting on the conviction, "former agent" or "ex-agent" is accurate, and anything else would be inaccurate. > You wouldn't say Ex-president Obama was impeached, that's just weird. Well, yeah, because an ex-President can't be impeached (unless they are now in another impeachable office.) Impeachment happens while you are in office, and doesn't remove you from office (it is the formal initiation of a process which might, with conviction, result in removal from office.) So, its not really a comparable thing.
• culturestate 11y ago
  As another reply said, the President cannot be impeached once he's out of office, but congressmen are convicted of crimes relatively regularly and receive the same treatment, e.g.: "Ex-Rep. Jefferson (D-La.) gets 13 years in freezer cash case" by the Washington Post [1] "Ex-Congressman Gets 8-Year Term in Bribery Case" by the New York Times [2] Each of these convictions related to things that happened while they were still Members of Congress. I'm quite happy that news outlets treat government officials the same way they'd treat a baseball player -- to do otherwise would just be a different form of "propaganda." 1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/13/AR2009111301266.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11... 2. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/politics/04cunningham.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/politics/04cunningham.html