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

CHENEY
ARTICLE III. ABUSE OF OFFICE

(3) Maintaining an Unethical Business Relationship

As the originator of the no-bid contract procurement a system at the Pentagon during his tenure as Secretary of Defense under President George Herbert Walker Bush, a system he subsequently profited handsomely from during his subsequent tenure as Chief Executive Officer for Halliburton Company from 1995 to 2000, Richard Bruce Cheney, during his tenure as Vice President of the United States of America, has maintained an unethical relationship with his previous employer, Halliburton Company, in that:

(A) The Office of the Vice President has been involved in the arrangement of contracts awarded to Halliburton Company by the Department of Defense, such as two contracts awarded on November 11, 2002 and March 8, 2003, worth up to $7 billion, to develop and implement a contingency plan to restore Iraq’s oil infrastructure upon the then impending invasion of Iraq;

(B) He has chosen to remain silent and has taken no action to rectify matters or provide new oversight to prevent waste, fraud and abuse by government contractors in the face of a succession of financial scandals involving his former employer, Halliburton Company and its subsidiaries, which include the following:

(i) In 2002 Halliburton Company paid a $2 million fine to the Justice Department for fraud committed against the Department of Defense during his tenure as Chief Executive Officer.

(ii) In May 2002 the Securities and Exchange Commission initiated an investigation into possible fraudulent accounting and securities trading during his tenure as Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Company;

(iii) In 2003 Halliburton was caught overcharging the Department of Defense by $27.4 million for meals supplied to troops at five military bases;

(iv) In May 2003 Halliburton admitted to having paid a Nigerian official millions of dollars in exchange for tax exemptions;

(v) In December 2003 the Defense Contract Audit Agency found that Halliburton Company had over-billed the Department of Defense by more than $61 million;

(vi) In January 2004 Halliburton admitted tht its employees had accepted kickbacks amounting to $6.3 million from a Kuwaiti-based subcontractor in exchange for a portion of United States Government contracts.

(C) Despite public denials claiming he holds “no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind,” Richard Bruce Cheney continues to hold 433,333 Halliburton stock options, whose value has soared from $240,000 to over $8 million as Halliburton has received over $10 billion in government contracts since he became Vice President in 2001, and has continued to receive deferred payments from Halliburton in excess of $150,000 per year.

Whereby Richard Bruce Cheney, by using his office or allowing his office to be used in a manner contrary to known standards of ethics for public officials, did commit high misdemeanors against the United States of America.

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