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CHENEY ARTICLE I. VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (3) Promoting Torture Richard Bruce Cheney, as Vice President of the United States of America, has condoned and helped to promote a vast expansion of the use of torture against unarmed combatants and civilian non-combatants, 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: (A) publicly condoning the use of water torture techniques; and (B) lobbying Congress to exempt the CIA from restrictions on the use of harsh interrogation methods; actions which undermine legal prohibitions on the use of torture are in violation of the Third Geneva Convention banning torture and abuse of Prisoners of War as well as non-combatants and unarmed (“enemy”) combatants held in detention; Articles 4 and 32 of the Fourth Geneva Convention; and the Federal Torture Statute [18 USC Sec. 2340A]. Whereby, Richard Bruce Cheney, by acting in violation of the United Nations Charter, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Third Geneva Convention and the Fourth Geneva Convention, all of these being treaties ratified by the United States Senate and which are therefore “the supreme Law of the Land” under Article VI of the Constitution of the United States of America, and by acting in violation of the Federal Torture Statute and Geneva Conventions Protocol I, to which the United States of America is a signatory, has committed high crimes against the United States of America and by such conduct warrants impeachment, trial, and removal from office.
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