Link to PDF document:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/mckinneyarticles.pdf109TH CONGRESS
2ND SESSION
H. Res. 1106
Articles of Impeachment against George Walker Bush,
President of the United States of America, and other
officials, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
_____________________________
IN THE HOUSE OF
REPESENTATIVES
DECEMBER 8, 2006
Ms. McKINNEY introduced the following Resolution:
_____________________________
RESOLUTION
Resolved, that George Walker Bush, President of the United States,
is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that
the following Articles of Impeachment be exhibited to the
United States Senate:
Articles of Impeachment exhibited by the House of
Representatives of the United States of America in the
name of itself and of all the people of the United States of
America, against George Walker Bush, President of the
United States of America, and other officials, in
maintenance and support of its impeachment against him
for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled that:
ARTICLE I. FAILURE TO PRESERVE, PROTECT
AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION
In violation of the oath of office, which reads: “I do
solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the
Office of President of the United States, and will to the best
of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution
of the United States,” George Walker Bush, in his conduct
while President of the United States has demonstrated a
pattern of abuse of office and of executive privilege, and
disregard for the Constitution itself.
This conduct includes the following:
* Manipulating Intelligence and Lying to Justify War.
* In violation of the separation of powers under the
* Constitution and his subsequent obligation to share
* intelligence with the Congress, George Walker Bush, while
* serving as President of the United States of America, in
* preparing the invasion of Iraq, did withhold intelligence
* from the Congress, by refusing to provide Congress with
* the full intelligence picture that he was being given, by
* redacting information by, for example, removing portions
* of reports such as the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily
Brief, and actively manipulating the intelligence on Iraq’s
alleged weapons programs by pressuring the Central
Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies to
provide intelligence such that
“the intelligence and facts
were being fixed around the policy” as revealed in the
“Downing Street Memo.” To this end, President George
Walker Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld created
the Office of Special Plans inside the Pentagon to override
existing intelligence reports by providing unreliable
evidence that supported the claim that Iraq’s alleged
weapons of mass destruction posed an imminent threat to
the United States of America.
By justifying the invasion of
Iraq with false and misleading statements linking Iraq to
the attacks of September 11, 2001, and falsely asserting
that Iraq had a nuclear weapons program for which it was
importing aluminum tubes and uranium, these assertions
being either false, or based on “fixed” intelligence, with the
intent to misinform the people and their representatives in
Congress in order to gain their support for invading Iraq,
denying both the people and their representatives in
Congress the right to make an informed choice, George
Walker Bush, President of the United States, did commit
and was guilty of high crimes against the United States of
America.ARTICLE II. ABUSE OF OFFICE AND OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE.
In violation of his oath to “faithfully execute the office of
President of the United States,” George Walker Bush, in his
conduct while President of the United States, has
consistently demonstrated disregard for that oath by
obstructing and hindering the work of Congressional
investigative bodies and by seeking to expand the scope of
the powers of his office.
This conduct includes the following:
* Failure to Uphold Accountability.
* In abrogation of his responsibility under the oath of office
* to take care that the Laws be faithfully executed, by which
* he agreed to act in good faith and accept responsibility for
* the overall conduct of the Executive Branch, a duty vested
* in his office alone under the Constitution, George Walker
* Bush, failed to take responsibility for, investigate or
* discipline those responsible for an ongoing pattern of
* negligence, incompetence and malfeasance to the detriment
* of the American people.
* Those whom George Walker Bush, as President of the
* United States of America, has failed to hold to account
* include but are not limited to the following top-level
* officials in his administration:
(a) Richard Cheney. In violation of his oath of office to
support and defend the Constitution, Richard Cheney, Vice
President of the United States of America, played a key
role in manipulating intelligence in the interest of
promoting the illegal invasion of Iraq by pressuring
analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency to “fix” their
intelligence estimates of the danger posed by Iraq in
relation to weapons of mass destruction, whereby Richard
Cheney, Vice President of the United States, did commit
and was guilty of high crimes against the United States of
America.
(b) Condoleezza Rice, In violation of her Constitutional
duty to share and provide accurate and truthful intelligence
information with the Congress, as former National Security
Advisor to the President, did play a leading role in
deceiving Congress and the American public by repeating
and propagating false statements concerning Iraq’s alleged
weapons of mass destruction program, including false
information that the purchase of aluminum tubes
demonstrated that Iraq was pursuing a nuclear weapons
program, false information that Iraq was seeking to
purchase uranium and false information that Iraq sought
help in developing a chemical and biological weapons
program; whereby Conoleezza Rice, Secretary of State of
the United States of America, did commit and was guilty of
high misdemeanors against the United States of America.
By neglecting to superintend the conduct of these officials
and to hold members of the Executive Branch responsible
for their negligence or violations of law, George Walker
Bush, President of the United States, did commit and was
guilty of high misdemeanors against the United States of
America.
Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George
Walker Bush, Richard Cheney and Condoleezza Rice
warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office.
ARTICLE III. FAILURE TO ENSURE THE LAWS ARE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED
In violation of his duty under Article II, Section 3 of the
Constitution of the United States of America to “take Care
that the Laws be faithfully executed,” George Walker Bush,
during his tenure as President of the United States, has
violated the letter and spirit of laws and rules of criminal
procedure used by civilian and military courts, and has
violated or ignored regulatory codes and practices that
carry out the law.
This conduct includes the following:
* Illegal Domestic Spying.
* In violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
* (FISA) <50 USC Chapter 36>, George Walker Bush did
* clandestinely direct the National Security Agency and
* various other intelligence agencies, in secret and outside
* the lawful scope of their mandates, for purposes unrelated
* to any lawful function of his offices, to conduct electronic
* surveillance of citizens of the United States on U.S. soil
* without seeking to obtain, before or after, a judicial warrant,
* thereby subverting the powers of the Congress and the
* Judiciary by circumventing the Foreign Intelligence
* Surveillance Act (FISA) courts established by Congress,
* whose express purpose is to check such abuses of executive
* power, provoking the presiding judge of the Foreign
* Intelligence Surveillance Court to file a complaint and
* another judge to resign in protest, the said program having
* been subsequently ruled illegal (ACLU vs. NSA); he has
* also concealed the existence of this unlawful program of
* spying on American citizens from the people and all but a
* few of their representatives in Congress, even resorting to
* outright public deceit as on 20 April, 2004, when he told an
* audience in Buffalo, New York: “any time you hear the
* United States government talking about wiretap, it
* requires . . . a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way.
* When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're
* talking about getting a court order before we do so,”
* whereby said George Walker Bush, President of the United
* States, did commit and was guilty of high crimes against
* the United States of America.
In all of this, George Walker Bush has repeatedly and
unapologetically misled the American people and has
sought to undermine the system of checks and balances
established by the Founding Founders. Wherefore George
Walker Bush, by such conduct, and in the interest of saving
our Constitution and our democracy from the threat of
arbitrary government, warrants impeachment and trial, and
removal from office.
Document:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/mckinneyarticles.pdfTo think that this is just the tip of the iceberg... (nothing about blatant RW corruption in this doc.)
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