from
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The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States,
shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of,
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President George W. Bush
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Vice President Richard B. Cheney
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Secretary of Defense Donald H.
Rumsfeld
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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:
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Seized power to wage wars of aggression
in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule
of law; carried 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 tens of thousands of Iraqis, and hundreds of
U.S. G.I.s.
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Lied to the people of the U.S., to
Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales
for war.
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Authorized, ordered and condoned direct
attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where
civilian casualties were unavoidable.
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Ordered and directed the violent
overthrow of sovereign states, disappearances, kidnappings,
assassinations, summary executions, murder and torture.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Use of secret arrests of persons within
the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right to public
trials.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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Refusal to provide information and
records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of
legislative oversight of executive functions.
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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.
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