[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1106 Introduced in House (IH)]


109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1106

 Articles of Impeachment against George Walker Bush, President of the 
  United States of America, and other officials, for high crimes and 
                             misdemeanors.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 8, 2006

Ms. McKinney submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Articles of Impeachment against George Walker Bush, President of the 
  United States of America, and other officials, for high crimes and 
                             misdemeanors.

    Resolved, That George Walker Bush, President of the United States, 
is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following 
Articles of Impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:
    Articles of Impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives 
of the United States of America in the name of itself and of all the 
people of the United States of America, against George Walker Bush, 
President of the United States of America, and other officials, in 
maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes 
and misdemeanors.
    Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled that:

  ARTICLE I. FAILURE TO PRESERVE, PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION

    In violation of the oath of office, which reads: ``I do solemnly 
swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of 
President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, 
preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States'', 
George Walker Bush, in his conduct while President of the United States 
has demonstrated a pattern of abuse of office and of executive 
privilege, and disregard for the Constitution itself.
    This conduct includes the following:

           Manipulating Intelligence and Lying To Justify War

    In violation of the separation of powers under the Constitution and 
his subsequent obligation to share intelligence with the Congress, 
George Walker Bush, while serving as President of the United States of 
America, in preparing the invasion of Iraq, did withhold intelligence 
from the Congress, by refusing to provide Congress with the full 
intelligence picture that he was being given, by redacting information 
by, for example, removing portions of reports such as the August 6, 
2001, Presidential Daily Brief, and actively manipulating the 
intelligence on Iraq's alleged weapons programs by pressuring the 
Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies to provide 
intelligence such that ``the intelligence and facts were being fixed 
around the policy'' as revealed in the ``Downing Street Memo''. To this 
end, President George Walker Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld 
created the Office of Special Plans inside the Pentagon to override 
existing intelligence reports by providing unreliable evidence that 
supported the claim that Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction 
posed an imminent threat to the United States of America. By justifying 
the invasion of Iraq with false and misleading statements linking Iraq 
to the attacks of September 11, 2001, and falsely asserting that Iraq 
had a nuclear weapons program for which it was importing aluminum tubes 
and uranium, these assertions being either false, or based on ``fixed'' 
intelligence, with the intent to misinform the people and their 
representatives in Congress in order to gain their support for invading 
Iraq, denying both the people and their representatives in Congress the 
right to make an informed choice, George Walker Bush, President of the 
United States, did commit and was guilty of high crimes against the 
United States of America.

         ARTICLE II. ABUSE OF OFFICE AND OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE

    In violation of his oath to ``faithfully execute the office of 
President of the United States'', George Walker Bush, in his conduct 
while President of the United States, has consistently demonstrated 
disregard for that oath by obstructing and hindering the work of 
Congressional investigative bodies and by seeking to expand the scope 
of the powers of his office.
    This conduct includes the following:

                    Failure To Uphold Accountability

    In abrogation of his responsibility under the oath of office to 
take care that the Laws be faithfully executed, by which he agreed to 
act in good faith and accept responsibility for the overall conduct of 
the Executive Branch, a duty vested in his office alone under the 
Constitution, George Walker Bush, failed to take responsibility for, 
investigate or discipline those responsible for an ongoing pattern of 
negligence, incompetence and malfeasance to the detriment of the 
American people.
    Those whom George Walker Bush, as President of the United States of 
America, has failed to hold to account include but are not limited to 
the following top-level officials in his administration:
    (a) Richard Cheney.--In violation of his oath of office to support 
and defend the Constitution, Richard Cheney, Vice President of the 
United States of America, played a key role in manipulating 
intelligence in the interest of promoting the illegal invasion of Iraq 
by pressuring analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency to ``fix'' 
their intelligence estimates of the danger posed by Iraq in relation to 
weapons of mass destruction, whereby Richard Cheney, Vice President of 
the United States, did commit and was guilty of high crimes against the 
United States of America.
    (b) Condoleezza Rice.--In violation of her Constitutional duty to 
share and provide accurate and truthful intelligence information with 
the Congress, as former National Security Advisor to the President, did 
play a leading role in deceiving Congress and the American public by 
repeating and propagating false statements concerning Iraq's alleged 
weapons of mass destruction program, including false information that 
the purchase of aluminum tubes demonstrated that Iraq was pursuing a 
nuclear weapons program, false information that Iraq was seeking to 
purchase uranium and false information that Iraq sought help in 
developing a chemical and biological weapons program; whereby 
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State of the United States of America, 
did commit and was guilty of high misdemeanors against the United 
States of America.
    By neglecting to superintend the conduct of these officials and to 
hold members of the Executive Branch responsible for their negligence 
or violations of law, George Walker Bush, President of the United 
States, did commit and was guilty of high misdemeanors against the 
United States of America.
    Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George Walker Bush, 
Richard Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice warrant impeachment, trial, and 
removal from office.

    ARTICLE III. FAILURE TO ENSURE THE LAWS ARE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED

    In violation of his duty under Article II, Section 3 of the 
Constitution of the United States of America to ``take Care that the 
Laws be faithfully executed'', George Walker Bush, during his tenure as 
President of the United States, has violated the letter and spirit of 
laws and rules of criminal procedure used by civilian and military 
courts, and has violated or ignored regulatory codes and practices that 
carry out the law.
    This conduct includes the following:

                        Illegal Domestic Spying

    In violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) 
[50 U.S.C. Chapter 36], George Walker Bush did clandestinely direct the 
National Security Agency and various other intelligence agencies, in 
secret and outside the lawful scope of their mandates, for purposes 
unrelated to any lawful function of his offices, to conduct electronic 
surveillance of citizens of the United States on U.S. soil without 
seeking to obtain, before or after, a judicial warrant, thereby 
subverting the powers of the Congress and the Judiciary by 
circumventing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) courts 
established by Congress, whose express purpose is to check such abuses 
of executive power, provoking the presiding judge of the Foreign 
Intelligence Surveillance Court to file a complaint and another judge 
to resign in protest, the said program having been subsequently ruled 
illegal (ACLU vs. NSA); he has also concealed the existence of this 
unlawful program of spying on American citizens from the people and all 
but a few of their representatives in Congress, even resorting to 
outright public deceit as on April 20, 2004, when he told an audience 
in Buffalo, New York: ``any time you hear the United States Government 
talking about wiretap, it requires . . . a court order. Nothing has 
changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, 
we're talking about getting a court order before we do so'', whereby 
said George Walker Bush, President of the United States, did commit and 
was guilty of high crimes against the United States of America.
    In all of this, George Walker Bush has repeatedly and 
unapologetically misled the American people and has sought to undermine 
the system of checks and balances established by the Founding Fathers. 
Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct, and in the interest of 
saving our Constitution and our democracy from the threat of arbitrary 
government, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
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