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Articles of Impeachment
of Bush & Co.
By Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark
Of
President George W. Bush
and
Vice President Richard B. Cheney,
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and
Attorney General John David Ashcroft
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 Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General John David
Ashcroft 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) Threatening Iraq with a first-strike war of aggression
by
overwhelming and indiscriminate force including specific threats
to
use nuclear weapons while engaged in a massive military build-up
in
surrounding nations and waters.
2) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians,
civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties are
unavoidable.
3) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by
belligerently proclaiming an intention to change its government
by
force while preparing to assault Iraq in a war of aggression.
4) 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.
5) 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.
6) 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.
7) 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."
8) 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.
9) 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.
10) 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.
11) 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.
12) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States
and
elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials.
13) 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.
14) 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."
15) 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.
16) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and
appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight
of
executive functions.
17) 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 recission
of the
authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as
the
basis for the International Criminal Court.
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"On the basis of the information publicly available, there
is no
justification under international law for the use of military
force
against Iraq."
- a letter from 16 professors of international law
from Oxford, Cambridge, and London universities, as reported
in The
Guardian 7 March 2003 |
