Articles of Impeachment:

Bush Index

I. Upholding the Law

Domestic Law:

• Spying
• Self-Exemption from Laws
• Suspending Due Process
• Promoting War

International Law:

• Torture
• Renditions
• Illegal Weapons

II. Abuse of Office

• Obstructing Inquiry
• Signing Statements
• Failure of Accountability
  • Cheney
  • Gonzalez
  • Rice
  • Rumsfeld

III. Constitution

• Manipulating Intelligence
• Initiating War
• Suspending Due Process
• Unlawful Search & Seizure
• Corrupting FISA Courts
• Non-Cooperation
• Parallel Legal System
• Sources

Cheney Index

I. International Law

• Promoting War
• Threatening War
• Promoting Torture

II. Lying

• Manipulating Intelligence
• False Evidence

III. Abuse of Office

• Exposing Identity
• Violating the Public Trust
• Unethical Business Interest

IV. Evasion

New Grounds

BUSH
ARTICLE I. FAILURE TO ENSURE THE LAWS ARE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED

(5) Promoting Illegal Torture

In direct violation of, and as part of a pattern of consistent attempts through executive orders, legal memoranda and alterations to regulations such as the Army Field Manual, to undermine the Federal Torture Statute [18 USC Sec. 2340A]; the Third Geneva Convention banning torture and abuse of Prisoners of War, as well as non-combatants and unarmed (“enemy”) combatants held in detention; and Articles 4 and 32 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which expressly prohibit not merely torture but physical abuse of any kind being inflicted upon “persons protected by the Convention,” defined as “those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals,” this language being written as a precaution against and in anticipation of alternate definitions of torture, these declarations and treaties being ratified by the United States Senate and therefore the supreme law of the land as according to Article VI of the Constitution, George Walker Bush, as President of the United States of America, has condoned and presided over a vast expansion of the use of torture against unarmed combatants and civilian non-combatants, both foreign and domestic, detained or kidnapped by forces or agents of the United States, leading to extreme pain, psychological trauma, disfigurement and in some cases, death.
By signing a legal memorandum on February 7, 2002 (declassified on June 17, 2004), in which he wrote that “The war on terror ushers in a new paradigm,” one which requires “new thinking in the law of war,” and decreeing that, contrary to all past military practices of an official nature, the United States would no longer be constrained by the laws of war presently in force in its treatment of those captured during its invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and subsequently detained, a legal opinion which the Supreme Court struck down on June 29, 2006 (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld) by its ruling that the Third Geneva Convention did apply to detainees in the custody of the United States, George Walker Bush, President of the United States, by his concerted efforts to undermine any legal limits on the use of torture by United States personnel, did commit and was guilty of high crimes against the United States of America.

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