Articles of Impeachment
of
President George W. Bush
and
Vice President Richard B. Cheney,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
The President, Vice
President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from
Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high
Crimes and Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales have committed violations and subversions of the Constitution
of the United States of America in an attempt to carry out with impunity crimes
against peace and humanity and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights
of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an
imperial executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the
Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States, by the
following acts:
1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S.
Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a massive
assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United
States, resulting in the death and maiming of over one hundred thousand Iraqis,
and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.
2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing
false and deceptive rationales for war.
3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian
facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable.
4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the
people of the United States through the National Security Agency.
5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently
changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.
6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions,
kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and
physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements
concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating
within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere,
the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the
conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government
personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false
information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed
judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain
weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and
destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.
8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and
international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article
VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity
crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of
aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the
United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other
corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and
frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which
international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the
exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international
community.
9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human
rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel,
without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial
officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary
designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."
10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and
elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney
General or the Secretary of Defense.
11) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of
release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer
after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.
12) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who
are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive
who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate
relief.
13) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of
persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government
in the United States, including in response to Congressional inquiry.
14) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and
denial of the right to public trials.
15) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged
communications by the government, even in the absence of a court order and even
where an incarcerated person has not been charged with a crime.
16) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United
States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any
entity that at the discretionary designation of the Executive has been deemed
"terrorist."
17) Engaging in criminal neglect in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,
depriving thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and other Gulf States of
urgently needed support, causing mass suffering and unnecessary loss of life.
18) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of
domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement
in noncriminal religious and political activity.
19) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the
constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive functions.
20) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of
the obligations of the United States under, and withdrawal from, international
treaties and obligations without consent of the legislative branch, and
including termination of the ABM treaty between the United States and Russia,
and rescission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served
as the basis for the International Criminal Court.
4-22-06
SEE: Ramsey Clark