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

CHENEY
ARTICLE III. ABUSE OF OFFICE

(1) Conspiring to Reveal the Covert Identity
of an Intelligence Officer

He has, in seeking to justify and gain public support for the invasion of Iraq by United States Armed Forces, made assertions to the effect that the Government of Iraq had been attempting to purchase uranium from Niger in an effort to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program, and when, on July 6, 2003, Ambassador Joseph Wilson publicly exposed the evidence supporting these assertions to be false and to be based on forged documents, he did subsequently dictate talking points to his Chief of Staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., on ways to retaliate or to impugn the credibility of Ambassador Wilson; whereupon Libby, among other administration officials, thereafter publicly revealed the covert identity of Ambassador Wilson’s wife, in violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 [50 USC Sec. 421].

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