[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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