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 II. ABUSE OF OFFICE AND OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE

(1) Obstructing Inquiry and Detection

At the Virginia Convention on ratification of the Constitution, George Mason argued that the President might usurp his powers to “pardon crimes which were advised by himself” or prior to indictment or conviction “to stop inquiry and prevent detection,” to which James Madison responded that if he did so, “the House of Representatives would impeach him.”

In an effort to conceal the high crimes and misdemeanors here mentioned, George Walker Bush, in his conduct as President of the United States of America, has presided over the most secretive Presidency in this nation’s history, and an administration which actively interferes with the free flow of information by manipulating the press and frustrating its ability to provide an oversight function by being actively hostile to questioning from the press, by placing imposters posing as agents of the press at press conferences, by threatening reporters with prosecution under espionage laws, and by purchasing television segments and placing newspaper stories falsely posing as unbiased reporting in an effort to promote Administration policies. The conduct of this Administration follows a pattern of seeking to hush “whistleblowers” who come forward to share potentially incriminating information with the public, rather than investigating the alleged crime. This Administration has also refused to provide key information to Congressional investigations, and to prosecutors investigating the outing of a Central Intelligence Agency Officer in an apparent act of retribution, or to actively pursue the identity of the guilty informant, despite the President’s public pledge to fire the guilty party once discovered, and even after one Administration official was charged in the case with obstruction of justice.

George Walker Bush has abused his office by consistently invoking executive privilege in order to shelter his office and his appointees from both Congressional oversight and judicial accountability, whereby said George Walker Bush, President of the United States, did commit and was guilty of high misdemeanors against the United States of America, as George Mason foresaw.

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