of
President George W. Bush
and
Vice President Richard B. Cheney,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United
States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and
Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and
Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld,
and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have committed violations and
subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an
attempt to carry out with impunity crimes against peace and humanity
and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights of the people of
the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an imperial
executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress,
the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States,
by the following acts:
1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S.
Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a
massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not
threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of
over one hundred thousand Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.
2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N.,
providing false and deceptive rationales for war.
3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians,
civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were
unavoidable.
4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation
against the people of the United States through the National Security
Agency.
5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by
belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in
a war of aggression.
6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary
executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of
individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of
prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of
governments and individuals and violating within the United States,
and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of
individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights.
7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda
about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by
U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign
governments with false information; concealing information vital to
public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions
and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in
order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to
U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.
8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and
international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under
Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit
with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars
and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and
usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations
by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties,
committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties
in order to destroy any means by which international law and
institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S.
military and economic power against the international community.
9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and
human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without
access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear
before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based
solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen
as an "enemy combatant."
10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States
and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of
the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.
11) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial
orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the
judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is
wrongfully held by the government.
12) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of
persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the
discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor
and as the only avenue of appellate relief.
13) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and
locations of persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned
by the U.S. government in the United States, including in response to
Congressional inquiry.
14) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and
elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials.
15) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client
privileged communications by the government, even in the absence of a
court order and even where an incarcerated person has not been charged
with a crime.
16) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the
United States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent
association with any entity that at the discretionary designation of
the Executive has been deemed "terrorist."
17) Engaging in criminal neglect in the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina, depriving thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and
other Gulf States of urgently needed support, causing mass suffering
and unnecessary loss of life.
18) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and
authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons
based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and political
activity.
19) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and
appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of
executive functions.
20) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and
abrogation of the obligations of the United States under, and
withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations without
consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the
ABM treaty between the United States and Russia, and rescission of the
authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the
basis for the International Criminal Court.
