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 IV. EVASION

(1) Serving with Purposes of Evasion

In violation of his oath of office to “take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion,” Richard Bruce Cheney, during his tenure as Vice President of the United States, has refused to provide information to Congressional investigations, and to prosecutors investigating the public disclosure of the identity of a Central Intelligence Agency Operative. This conduct has included one or more of the following:

(1) As Chair of the National Energy Policy Development Group, which met from January 29 to May 16, 2001, Richard Bruce Cheney refused to cooperate with a Congressional investigation, by denying GAO requests to interview the Group’s staff as well as requests for information on the process by which this body produced the National Energy Policy report.

(2) In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Richard Bruce Cheney publicly opposed any effort by Congress to launch an investigation into the events of September 11th and the events leading up to the attacks, After bowing to pressure from the families of victims of 9/11, from the public and from Congress, a Commission on Terrorist Acts Upon the United States was formed to study all aspects of the events, their causes and aftermath and to recommend policies for the future. Thereupon, Richard Bruce Cheney was part of concerted efforts by the White House to thwart the investigation, block release of critical documents for their review, or allow witnesses to testify, including his own demand that he and the President testify in private, not under oath, without transcript and with only pre-selected members and note takers allowed, demanding further that those notes would be vetted by the White House before release to the full Commission, contrary to established practice in conducting federal investigations.

(3) In the context of revelations that appeared to contradict Vice President Cheney’s denials that his office had played any role in arranging two sole-source contracts awarded to Halliburton Company in 2002 and 2003, his previous employer, Richard Bruce Cheney refused to comply with requests from the minority office of the Government Reform Committee for documents from the Office of the Vice President and the Deputies Committee concerning the sole source contracts, when such documentation could have clarified the role his office had played, if any, in awarding the contracts.

(4) Richard Bruce Cheney prevailed upon Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee to deny a request from the minority party for a Federal Bureau of Investigations investigation into the public disclosure of the covert identity of a Central Intelligence Officer, [when his office was involved]

Whereby, Richard Bruce Cheney, the first Vice President of the United States of America ever to invoke executive privilege, has abused his office by invoking such privilege in order to shelter his office and his appointees from both Congressional oversight and judicial accountability. Whereby Richard Bruce Cheney did commit and was guilty of high misdemeanors against the United States of America.

In all of this, Richard Bruce Cheney has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Vice President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

Wherefore, Richard Bruce Cheney, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

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