Articles of Impeachment:

Bush Index

I. Upholding the Law

Domestic Law:

• Spying
• Self-Exemption from Laws
• Suspending Due Process
• Promoting War

International Law:

• Torture
• Renditions
• Illegal Weapons

II. Abuse of Office

• Obstructing Inquiry
• Signing Statements
• Failure of Accountability
  • Cheney
  • Gonzalez
  • Rice
  • Rumsfeld

III. Constitution

• Manipulating Intelligence
• Initiating War
• Suspending Due Process
• Unlawful Search & Seizure
• Corrupting FISA Courts
• Non-Cooperation
• Parallel Legal System
• Sources

Cheney Index

I. International Law

• Promoting War
• Threatening War
• Promoting Torture

II. Lying

• Manipulating Intelligence
• False Evidence

III. Abuse of Office

• Exposing Identity
• Violating the Public Trust
• Unethical Business Interest

IV. Evasion

New Grounds

Bibliographic Sources

Bonifaz, John C.; Foreword by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. Warrior-King: The Case For Impeaching George W. Bush. (Nation Books, NY, 2003)

Center for Constitutional Rights. Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush. (Melville House Publishing, Hoboken, New Jersey; 2006)

de la Vega, Elizabeth. United States v. George W. Bush et al. (Seven Stories, Tom Dispatch.com, NY, 2006)

Holtzman, Elizabeth and Cynthia L. Cooper. The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens (Nation Books, NY, 2006)

Lapham, Lewis. Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration – A Case for Impeachment (The New Press, NY, 2006)

Lindorff, Dave & Olshansky, Barbara. The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office (Thomas Dunne Books, NY, 2006)

Loo, Dennis & Phillips, Peter (eds.). Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney (Seven Stories, NY, 2006)

Nichols, John, The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism (The New Press, NY, 2006)

U.S. House of Representatives, Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff. The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War (2005, online at www.house.gov/conyers)

Dempsey, James X. and Cole, David. Terrorism & the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security. (First Amendment Foundation, DC, 2002)

Irons, Peter. War Powers: How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitution. (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, NY, 2005)

Keefe, Patrick Radden. Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping. (Random House, NY, 2005)

Cole, David. Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism. (The New Press, NY, London, 2003)

Margulies, Joseph. Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power. (Simon & Schuster, NY, 2006)

Begg, Moazzam. The Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar. (The New Press, NY, 2006)

McCoy, Alfred W. A Question of Torture. (Metropolitan Books, New York, 2006)

Fisher, Louis. Military Tribunals & Presidential Power: American Revolution to the War on Terrorism. (University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2005)

Prados, John. Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War. (The New Press, NY, 2004)

Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeq. Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq. (New Society Publishers, 2003)

Brecher, Jeremy et. al., eds. In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond. (Metropolitan Books, New York, NY, 2005)

Falk, Richard, et al, ed. Crimes of War: Iraq (Nation Books, NY, 2006)

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