White Rose Coalition

The White Rose Coalition consists of activists and activist groups dedicated to removing Bush & Cheney from office before the end of their term, supporting our troops by bringing them home, and reversing the disastrous direction of the greedy corporate empire that currently runs the world via the U.S. Government.

The name comes from the White Rose Society, a group of students in 1942 Germany who leafletted the German people of that time, pleading with them to resist the fascist Nazi party and their unconscionable acts of racism, violence, civil and human rights violations, and imperialist world dominance.
We believe that America is currently headed down that same path, and that we need to act fast, before it's too late.
The following is an extensive list of offenses we believe warrant impeachment of both Bush and Cheney.
OFFENSES FOR WHICH IMPEACHMENT IS REQUIRED
By Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution
“shall be removed from Office” clause
There is a checkmark box to the left of each item. Which of these impeachable offences do you or your Congressperson think the American people should have to endure without penalty for law-breaking?
It is firmly documented that all these actions have been committed by President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and/or their staff:
IRAN:
__ threatening an unprovoked, first-strike attack against the sovereign nation of Iran
__ accusing Iran of a secret nuclear weapons program despite the government’s own intelligence agencies’ finding insufficient evidence for these claims
__ continuing to accuse Iran of hiding a nuclear weapons program and threatening war for months after intelligence agencies informed Bush in the National Intelligence Estimate that Iran ceased any nuclear weapons program as far back as 2003
__ misrepresenting Iran’s uranium enrichment plans as a defiance of international law when in fact civil nuclear power is a part of Iran’s rights under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
__ violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by providing nuclear weapons aid to India, and also U.S. law (since treaties signed by the U.S. are the law of the land)
IRAQ:
__ misleading the public that the Admin.’s primary goal after 9/11 was to find Osama bin Laden, while undermining efforts in Afghanistan by moving troops and equipment from there to Iraq in early 2002
__ deceiving Congress into believing that the Oct. 2002 resolution to authorize force was only meant to intimidate Iraq into allowing inspections, and that the US would only attack upon approval by the UN Security Council (while the Bush Admin. had decided months before to invade Iraq regardless of what UN inspectors found)
__ lying about the reasons to invade Iraq, thus usurping Congress’ constitutional prerogative to decide when to wage war (“the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy”, to quote the July 2002 Downing Street Memo by Britain’s chief of intelligence)
__ 935 false statements leading up to the invasion of Iraq made by key members of the Bush Administration that Iraq was a national security threat to the U.S. (tally by the Center for Public Integrity, Jan. 2008)
__ Bush and Cheney’s repeated false claims of illegal WMDs present in Iraq, well after they had knowledge that this was untrue
__ Bush and Cheney’s repeated false claims of a solid, continuing link between Iraq and Al Qaeda long after they had knowledge that this was untrue
__ Bush’s lie about Iraq’s pursuit of uranium from Niger in the Jan. 2003 State of the Union Address, a violation of the False Statements Accountability Act of 1996 (a felony)
__ Bush’s lies to Congress in his March 18, 2003 letter which made 2 claims he knew to be false (felonies): that Iraq threatened the national security of the U.S., and that war against Iraq was part of action against international terrorism
__ misleading statements to Congress and the American public regarding the probable cost, difficulty, loss of life, and duration of the war on Iraq
__ invading Iraq without the support of the United Nations and without a true, informed resolution by both houses of Congress (possible violation of the UN Charter, the Nuremberg Charter, and the U.S. War Powers Act of 1973)
__ failure to plan responsibly for the occupation of Iraq (disregarding advice from Middle East experts, the State Dept., the Council on Foreign Relations, intelligence agencies, various generals, and even the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute), which has resulted in a protracted insurgency
__ reckless disregard for human life in failing to provide a sufficient number of bulletproof vests for a large number of troops in Iraq for several years into the war, even though the war began on the U.S.’ timetable, not in response to an attack or imminent threat
__ reckless disregard for human life in failing to provide adequately armored Humvees for the troops in Iraq, even though the war began on the U.S.’ timetable, not in response to an attack or imminent threat
__ lying to the public in an effort to cover-up these failures to equip the troops
__ failure to hold any officials accountable for these failures
__ punitive action against high officials who disagreed with the Admin.’s war plans and predictions, which may violate federal laws on retaliation against witnesses, etc.
__ the awarding of giant no-bid contracts in Iraq to Cheney’s former firm Halliburton at the same time as Cheney continued to gain financially via deferred stock payouts from the company
__ failure to curb Halliburton’s over-billing and under-performance in Iraq at great cost to taxpayers and to the reconstruction efforts in Iraq, and to the increasing discontent of Iraqis (thus partly fuelling the insurgency)
__ failure to take action after a series of shooting incidents and warnings over 2 years indicated that Blackwater and other private security firms were out of control in Iraq
__ tolerance of an atmosphere of corruption among war profiteers and disorganization among bureaucrats which has resulted in $9 billion of taxpayer money going missing in IraqTORTURE & GULAGS:
__ obstruction of congressional demands for information on hundreds of hours of CIA interrogation tapes that were destroyed despite an explicit order from Sen. Ted Kennedy five months earlier (in June 2005) to preserve all evidence on torture and mistreatment of Guantanamo detainees
__ the appearance of a cover-up in attempts by the Justice Dept. to make a federal judge desist from examining the matter of the destroyed tapes, the destruction of which had been discussed in advance with White House lawyers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, John Bellinger III, and Harriet Myers
__ Bush’s refusal to execute McCain’s Jan. 2006 law banning torture (passed 90-9 in the Senate and with a veto-proof margin in the House) by adding a ‘signing statement’ exempting himself from obeying it
__ high level Bush Admin. memos prescribing torture for detainees, in violation of the Geneva Conventions, the UN Convention Against Torture, the U.S.’ 1996 War Crimes Act, a 1994 U.S. antitorture law (now Sections 2340-2340A of the Criminal Code), and also the Eighth Amendment (against “cruel and unusual punishments”) and the Fifth Amendment (against “compelled” confessions in a criminal case)
__ deliberate actions to circumvent the Geneva Conventions, the U.N. Convention Against Torture, and the U.S. Constitution by incarcerating hundreds of prisoners of war at Guantanamo Bay, where the International Committee of the Red Cross described their mistreatment as “tantamount to torture”
__ payment of bounties to Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan for each captive rounded up, resulting in incarceration of many inmates at Guantanamo Bay who may not even be terrorists or fighters at all
__ Bush’s failure to ensure that techniques from Guantanamo Bay not spread to operations in Iraq where the Geneva Conventions inarguably apply (instead Guantanamo head Army Major General Geoffrey Miller was sent to Iraq to train interrogators)
__ failure to take action against abuses at Abu Ghraib prison despite senior government officials’ knowledge of the photos several months before the story broke
__ Bush’s failure to punish any high level Admin. officials for the torture policy, despite a Feb 2006 Human Rights Watch report that close to 100 detainees had died in U.S. custody since Aug. 2002, including 45 confirmed or suspected homicides from abuse
__ Bush’s secret authorization of over 39 CIA detention centers (“black sites”) outside the U.S. for practices that would not be acceptable in the U.S.
__ renditioning of over 70 detainees between 2001 and 2005 to countries which practice torture, in violation of U.S. and international laws
__ keeping “ghost” detainees in isolation in U.S. facilities who are not on the prison register, including as many as 100 in Iraq, in violation of U.S. and international laws
SPYING ON AMERICANS:
__ domestic surveillance of thousands and possibly millions of Americans without their knowledge and without court approval
__ Bush’s lies, several years after the program began, that they were still getting court orders to wiretap
__ Bush’s false excuse to the public, after The New York Times exposed the spying, that he needed to violate FISA because it caused too many delays (yet the Admin. itself had arranged for FISA’s retro-active warrants to be extended from 24 hrs. to 72 hrs.)
__ lying about the extent and targets of the program until USA Today revealed that millions of Americans’ phone records were being tracked
__ lying, throughout the domestic surveillance debate, about when the surveillance began (On Dec. 14, 2007, The New York Times reported that the surveillance began shortly after Bush took office, months before 9/11.)
KATRINA:
__ Bush’s reckless disregard for human life in the appointment of unqualified cronies to head FEMA, to oversee FEMA as Homeland Security Secretary, and other related positions
__ Bush’s failure during Katrina to fulfill his unique responsibility to mobilize federal resources for disaster relief (i.e. not sending federal ground troops to aid evacuation until a week after declaring the region a disaster area), resulting in much loss of life: 1,836 confirmed dead, plus 3,200 missing of which many might have floated out to sea
__ Bush’s criminal negligence in ignoring explicit advance warnings of the devastation a serious hurricane would bring, repeatedly cutting funds to reinforce the New Orleans levees despite extensive advance research warning of the levees’ inadequacy and of the potential evacuation crisis for New Orleans
__ Bush’s failure to heed explicit warnings that the levees would break given him on Aug. 28, 2005, the day before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, including potential criminal negligence in his failure to ask questions or make plans
__ Bush’s lie to cover-up his failure: telling ABC on Sept. 1st, “I don’t think that anybody anticipated a breach of the levees.” (Before a video leaked to the Associated Press five months later showed how he was warned by video conference on Aug. 28th.)_
_ Bush’s lie to cover-up the massive federal failure which caused an unknown percentage of Katrina’s $81.2 billion in damage: “There was no situational awareness, and that means that we weren’t getting good, solid information from people who were on the ground…” (to ABC, Feb. 28, 2006)
__ Admin. refusal to release emails and other documents pertaining to the warnings received about Katrina, the refugees dying at the Superdome, etc._
_ Bush’s unwillingness to hold high officials accountable for the failures of FEMA or to examine why Cheney stayed on vacation throughout the crisis, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice shopped in New York, and no urgency existed in the Admin.
__ failure to correct continuing Katrina mismanagement, including months-long delays in bringing unused FEMA trailers from their depot to thousands of refugees made homeless by Katrina
__ disregard for public health in housing hurricane victims in FEMA trailers with dangerously toxic levels of the carcinogen formaldehyde (the Center for Disease Control found 5-40 times normal levels, and has urged those living in 35,000 trailers to evacuate)
(NPR, Feb. 14, 2008: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1899801 9)
__ lack of responsiveness to victims’ complaints of negative health effects experienced in the FEMA trailers from as early as 2006, and in U.S. Congressional testimony in 2007 (The Nation, Feb. 26, 2007: http://www.thenation.com/docprem.mhtml?i=20070226&s=spak e)
__ FEMA’s manipulation of scientific research to “play down the danger posed by formaldehyde in trailers issued to hurricane victims.” (House Committee on Science and Technology press release: Jan. 28, 2008 http://science.house.gov/press/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=2061)
9/11
__ disregard of grave warnings from many legitimate sources of an impending attack on U.S. territory, resulting in the deaths of over 3,000 Americans
__ delays and attempts to obstruct an inquiry into 9/11
__ lies claiming that no warnings were received and that the methods and target used on 9/11 were a complete surprise
__ cover-up of the NORAD drills which had virtually the exact same scenario going on at the same time as the actual attacks
__ Bush’s decision to stay sitting in a Kindergarten class instead of immediately defending the country as soon as he was informed that the U.S. was under attack
__ failure to investigate and prosecute those who aided in the evacuation of Osama bin Laden’s relatives from the U.S. after 9/11
__ the Admin.’s cutting of funding for the pursuit of bin Laden a few years after 9/11, and the secret diversion in early 2002 of troops and equipment from the war in Afghanistan to prepare to attack Iraq, despite initial promises to the American public that catching bin Laden was a top priority
__ ordering the EPA to assure the public that the air around Ground Zero was safe, resulting in respiratory diseases in untold numbers of rescue workers, etc.
__ possible negligence and appearance of political favoritism in Homeland Security’s 2006 decision to cut anti-terrorism funding to New York City by 40% (on the claim that NYC had no national monuments or icons) while increasing funds to cities like Jacksonville, Fla., Louisville, Ky., and Omaha, Neb.
GLOBAL WARMING
__ the refusal of the White House-controlled EPA to allow California to set its own auto emission standards to control global warming pollution, with a negative effect on pending emission standards laws in 17 other states as well
__ the refusal of the EPA to set sufficient federal controls on auto emissions to halt climate change, despite a Supreme Court ruling that this does fall under the EPA’s jurisdiciton
__ obstruction of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, delaying the deadline for an agreement to be reached to 2009
__ White House redaction of global warming and public health information from an Oct. 2007 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report to Congress: a substantial redaction, from 14 pgs down to 6 pgs
__ redaction of a 2003 EPA report to exclude accurate science on global warming
__ reckless disregard for human life and for long-term national security in the face of a 2004 Pentagon study that rapid climate change would cost millions of lives by 2025 and “vastly eclipse” the threat of terrorism with increasing chances of nuclear war
__ potential grounds for corruption charges in Cheney’s energy policy favoring non-renewable sources of energy (with which he, Bush, Rice, and others in the Admin. have strong ties) over: renewable energy, fuel-efficient vehicles, & energy efficiency measures
UNCONSTITUTIONAL ABROGATION OF POWERS TO EXECUTIVE:
__ Bush’s deliberate and secret defiance of at least 750 laws passed by Congress through his use of ‘signing statements’ which made his signing them into law void where the Executive was concerned
__ Bush’s continuing use of undisclosed signing statements, well after he has been criticized for the practice, in order to mislead the public into thinking he has accepted bills passed by Congress which are veto-proof or which he does not care to expend political capital trying to veto
__ Bush’s disregard for the will of the public, laws passed by the U.S. Congress, decisions by the judiciary, and states’ rights in his insistence on the U.S. Navy’s use of anti-submarine sonar in the Pacific Ocean (sonar is painful and lethal to whales and other marine mammals, according to: state and federal environmental law, a decision of the California Coastal Commission, and an injunction by a federal court to restrict it)
__ Bush’s disregard for the will of the public and failure to faithfully execute the law through his signing statement that effectively negates the Sudan Divestment Act in response to the Darfur genocide
PRESIDENCY ABOVE THE LAW:
__ allowing the disclosure of the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA agent, a likely federal crime under the Covert Agent Identity Protection Act of 1982 and other laws, as political retribution for the refutation by the agent’s husband of Admin. claims that Iraq was buying uranium from Niger
__ improper destruction of large numbers of emails from the relevant time period
__ the endangerment of intelligence operations surrounding Plame through this disclosure, and the impairment of U.S. goals of nuclear non-proliferation, an area which had been Plame’s special focus
__ Bush’s false promises to the public in 2003 and 2004 that he would thoroughly investigate and punish whoever had leaked Plame’s identity; instead, Bush commuted the perjury and obstruction of justice sentence of his and Cheney’s national security affairs assistant I. Lewis Libby
__ Cheney’s possible involvement in outing Plame, per Libby’s testimony that Plame’s identity had come from Cheney
__ potential obstruction of justice and conspiracy to cover-up the White House role by withholding 250 pages of emails from the president’s office for many months after they had been requested by the special prosecutor investigating the Plame outing
__Bush’s post-invasion declassification of only misleading passages of the Oct. 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, distorting the overall message of the NIE (a report which had actually contradicted the Admin.’s claims against Iraq) to try to cover-up Admin. deceptions leading to war
__ White House-approved firings of US attorneys (federal prosecutors) who had received positive performance reviews: at least five of the US attorneys were fired while pursuing corruptions investigations; New Mexico prosecutor David Iglesias claims he was fired after refusing to file charges against a Democrat in time for the Nov. 2006 election; an Arkansas prosecutor was fired and replaced by Karl Rove’s former aide Tim Griffin; and emails show that measures of loyalty to Bush’s policy agenda were key factors in the firings. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0319-01.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-02-06-prosecuto r-rove-aide_x.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03 /02/AR2007030201949.html
__ withholding of emails claimed ‘missing’ (some of which were obtained by BBC journalist Greg Palast) apparently to cover-up a 2004 plot partly engineered by Rove’s former aide Tim Griffin to disenfranchise minority voters through illegal use of ‘caging lists’ to target 70,000 voters in one state and remove them from voter rolls if they did not sign a letter from the RNC verifying their home address, including soldiers serving overseas whose absentee ballots would then be secretly disqualified by this method (targeting voters with race as a factor is a felony under the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
http://www.gregpalast.com/bushs-new-us-attorney-a-criminal
http://www.gregpalast.com/rove-pick-for-us-attorney-resigns- following-conyers’-request-for-bbc-documents
__ withholding of emails pertaining to the firing of US attorney David Iglesias after he resisted pressure from Republican operatives to bring forth bogus voter fraud prosecutions against voters (with the aim of show trials to promote voter ID legislation) http://www.gregpalast.com/investigative-journalist-greg-pala st-reports-on-the-firing-of-new-mexico-attorney-david-iglesi as
__ misuse of the Justice Department to obstruct Congress and potentially to obstruct justice by refusing to prosecute contempt charges passed by the House against presidential chief of staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers, after Bolten and Miers ignored subpoenas for many months for Congress’ inquiry into the allegedly politically-motivated firings of U.S. attorneys in 2006-2007.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-02-14-contempt- house_N.htm
__ obstruction of congressional investigations into 9/11, Katrina, pre-war intelligence, torture, Cheney’s energy task force, and others
__ conspiring to strip Americans of their citizenship at will by insisting that the President has the unilateral right to declare anyone he chooses an “enemy combatant” and incarcerate them indefinitely without charge, upon secret evidence, and without normal rights to a fair trial, in violation of both the Sixth and the Fourteenth Amendments
Feedback on Answers:
A) If you agree with the statement by U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-29, in S. California) to his constituents that “the failures of the current president and vice president” do NOT meet the “very high bar” required for impeachment…
PLEASE LOOK OVER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION!
(otherwise, you can skip ahead to next section)
SEPARATION OF POWERS:
Article I, Section 1:
Contrary to the Bush Administration’s ‘unitary executive’ theory, the independence of Congress is clearly spelled out in the first line after the Preamble: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”
Article I, Section 8:
Congress alone has the Power “To declare War”
Congress has the right to legislate the treatment of prisoners of war: “The Congress shall have Power To… make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water”
Congress has the right to legislate the conduct of the armed forces: “The Congress shall have Power…To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces”
Article VI
International treaties to which the U.S. is a signatory, like the Geneva Conventions and the UN Convention Against Torture, are also binding U.S. law: “all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby”
Article III, Section 1:
Contrary to the Bush Administration’s ‘unitary executive’ theory, the independence of the Judiciary is also clearly spelled out: “The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.”
THE PRESIDENT’S DUTIES:
Article II, Section 1: To take care the laws are faithfully executed: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”
The President’s Oath of office: “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.”
Article IV, Section 4:
Duty to protect and defend the United States from attack (including 9/11): “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion”
Article I, Section 9:
Responsibility to account for expenditure of taxpayer money: “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”
RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS:
Article II, Section 9:
“The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”
Article III, Section 2:
“The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment; shall be by Jury”
Fourth Amendment:
Protections against government spying:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Fourteenth Amendment:
Constitutional rights of citizens are absolute and cannot be abrogated by the Executive:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Rights of personhood, not just citizenship:
Fifth Amendment:
“No person shall be… compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”
Sixth Amendment:
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury...to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him;…and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.”
Eighth Amendment:
“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
Thirteenth Amendment:
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
IMPEACHMENT:
Article II, Section 4:
“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 I, Section 3:
“The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments…Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.”
B) If you think All, Many, or even Some of the impeachable offences on this list not only meet the ‘high bar’ for impeachment, but require impeachment….
YOU ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH:
* 25 co-sponsors of Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s H.Res.333/799 to impeach Cheney
* Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) on the House Judiciary Committee who have called for hearings on H.Res.799 (see www.wexlerwantshearings.com)
* Rep. Mike Michaud (D-Maine) who wrote Cttee. Chair Conyers, requesting hearings
* the Vermont State legislature, which passed a resolution for impeachment
* 90 city/municipal councils which passed resolutions for impeachment
* 53 local political groups or jurisdictions which passed resolutions for impeachment
* 17 state legislative districts which passed resolutions for impeachment
* 14 states where Democratic Party groups have passed impeachment resolutions
* 11 states in which some legislators made attempts to bring impeachment resolutions
* National Lawyers Guild, which passed a resolution for impeachment
* ACLU of S. Cal., which passed a resolution for impeachment
* United Teachers Los Angeles, which passed a resolution for impeachment
* Greater Seattle Local, American Postal Workers Union, which passed such a resolution
* AFSCME Local 2083, Seattle Public Library Union, which passed such a resolution
* the Green Party of the United States, which passed such a resolution
* the California Green Party, which passed such a resolution
* the Vermont Progressive Party, which passed such a resolution
* Veterans for Peace, which passed such a resolution
* United for Peace & Justice National Steering Cttee., which passed such a resolution
*70% of American voters in an ARG poll, who think Cheney has abused his powers
*64% of American voters in an ARG poll, who think Bush has abused his powers
*54% of American voters in an ARG poll, who believe Cheney should be impeached
*45% of American voters in an ARG poll, who believe Bush should be impeached
& also many important public figures who have harshly criticized this Presidency:
President Jimmy Carter
--told the press on Feb. 6, 2006 that Bush broke the law with his domestic surveillance
--told CNN on Oct. 10, 2007 that the U.S. now tortures in violation of international law
George McGovern (former Presidential candidate who campaigned against Nixon)
--in a Washington Post op-ed on Jan 6, 2008 called for impeachment of both Bush and Cheney for numerous offences
John Dean (former counsel to President Nixon):
--Worse Than Watergate. New York: Warner Books, 2004.
--Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches Viking Adult, 2007.
Sen. Joe Biden (Chair of Foreign Relations Cttee; former Presidential Candidate)
--who said in a Democratic debate and on MSNBC’s Hardball that if Bush attacks Iran without congressional approval he will lead an effort himself to impeach the President
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duARM8WewQE
American Bar Association
--disagreed with Bush’s claim that anyone can be excluded from the Geneva Conventions
--accused Bush of violating both the Constitution and Federal Law with his domestic surveillance programs (Feb 13, 2006)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12294.htm
Admiral Bobby Ray Inman (NSA director under Carter)
--rebuked Bush at a May 8, 2006 forum for surveillance outside the law
14 Legal Experts (including a former director of the FBI)
--wrote to leading House and Senate members on Jan. 9, 2006 that Bush’s wiretapping “appears on its face to violate existing law”
& even Conservative politicians who have condemned Bush White House actions:
Thomas H. Kean (fmr. New Jersey Governor, Republican; Chair of 9/11 Commission)
On Obstruction of 9/11 Commission by CIA re. interrogation tapes
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02kean.html?ex=135 7016400&en=8860409215ffb2a9&ei=5090&partner=rssu serland&emc=rss
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb., Senate’s 2nd-highest Republican leader) On Impeachment re. Iraq
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17786158/
http://www.esquire.com/features/chuckhagel0407
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX, and Presidential candidate): On Impeachment re. Constitutional Violations
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2006/100706impeachb ush.htm
Bruce Fein (Republican lawyer, Reagan’s associate deputy attorney general, Ron Paul campaign counsel)
On the need for Impeachment
http://www.slate.com/id/2169292
House Select Committee (all Republican), incl. Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) On Katrina:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/13/katrina.congress/inde x.html
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ; Presidential candidate) On Torture:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/15/torture.bill/index.ht ml
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/01/04/bush_c ould_bypass_new_torture_ban/
On Climate Change:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/16/politics/16mccain.html?ore f=login
On Iraq
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/04/29/news/politics/16_ 10_224_28_07.txt
Mitt Romney (fmr. Massachusetts Governor, Republican; Presidential candidate)
On Iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080101/pl_nm/usa_politics_romne y_dc
Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY)
Rep. Peter King (R-NY)
On Homeland Security Funding Cuts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/dyn/content/article/2006/06/01 /AR2006060101214.html
Mike McConnell (National Intelligence Director)
On Waterboarding
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080113/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terror ist_interrogation
KEY RESOURCES:
The Constitution in Crisis: The High Crimes of the Bush Administration and a Blueprint for Impeachment by John Conyers, Jr. (U.S. Congressman and current Chair, House Judiciary Committee) and Elizabeth Holtzman (former U.S. Congresswoman and member of the Nixon impeachment panel). Skyhorse Publishing, April 1, 2007
George W. Bush Versus the U.S. Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, Coverups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying by John Conyers Jr., (U.S. Congressman and current Chair, House Judiciary Committee) Anita Miller, and Joseph C. Wilson. Academy Chicago Publishers, Sep 1, 2006
Intelligence Matters: The CIA, The FBI, Saudi Arabia and the Failure of America’s War on Terror by Bob Graham (former Presidential candidate and former Congressman: D-FL) with Jeff Nussbaum. New York: Random House, 2004.
Also: http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2004/11/11_401.html
The Impeachment of George W. Bush by Elizabeth Holtzman (former U.S. Congresswoman and member of the Nixon impeachment panel) and Cynthia L. Cooper. New York: Nation Books, 2006.
The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office by Dave Lindorff and Barbara Olshansky (Human Rights professor at Stanford Law). New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush And Cheney, edited by Dennis Loo and Peter Phillips. Seven Stories Press, 2006.
Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush
by the Center For Constitutional Rights.
Melville House Publishing, 2006.
The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism and Why It Must Be Applied to George W. Bush
 by John Nichols. New Press, 2006.
Wil S. Hylton, “The People v. Richard Cheney”, GQ Magazine, March 2007
Carl Bernstein, “Senate Hearings on Bush, Now”, Vanity Fair (VF.com), April 17, 2006
Lewis Lapham, “Impeach Him”, Harper’s Magazine, March 2006
WEBSITES:
www.wexlerwantshearings.com
www.michaelmoore.com
www.afterdowningstreet.org/resourcecenter
www.impeachpac.org/resolutions-list
www.impeachbush.tv
www.democrats.com www.iraqbodycount.org
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