IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION FOR GEORGE W. BUSH

THERE WERE 10 ATTEMPTS/DISCUSSIONS TO IMPEACH GEORGE W. BUSH.

A RESOLUTION WAS INTRODUCED TO CONGRESS FOR IMPEACHMENT.

READING ABOUT THOSE, DIGGING DEEPLY INTO THE REASONS BEHIND THEM WILL LIKELY MAKE YOUR BLOOD RUN COLD, BUT SOMETIMES WE MUST FACE WHAT WE FEAR TO OVERCOME ILLUSION AND IMAGINED TERROR.

IN THE IMPEACHMENT MOTION, 35 ARTICLES (REASONS) WERE NAMED.
THE TWO CONGRESSMEN WHO ASKED FOR IMPEACHMENT KNEW CONSIDERABLY MORE THAN THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HAS BEEN MADE AWARE OF, EXCEPT THROUGH THIS DOCUMENT.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW JUST A BIT OF WHAT THEY DID, READ THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT.
I PROMISE YOU, IT IS AN EYE-OPENER LIKE NO OTHER!

THE DOCUMENTATION BEHIND THE ATTEMPTS AT IMPEACHMENT OF GEORGE W. BUSH IS IMPECCABLE.
READING THE FOLLOWING 35 ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AND THEN SEARCHING THEM MYSELF FOR WEEKS HAS CHANGED FOREVER HOW I SEE MY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT, AND THE TWO-PARTY POLITICAL SYSTEM WE ARE ALL ENTRAPPED IN.
DURING THIS TIME I ALSO READ THE AMAZING BOOK, CROSSING THE RUBICON BY MICHAEL C. RUPPERT. IT LITERALLY MADE ME WEEP TO REALIZE HOW FAR OUR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WILL GO TO SCAM AND TERRORIZE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 
I TOOK APART THE "DOWNING STREET MEMO", WORD-BY-WORD, AND FELT ENRAGED.
AFTER THIS, I MAY SOMETIMES WISH I HAD NOT DIVED INTO ALL THESE THINGS, HAD NEVER FOUND OUT WHAT I HAVE, BUT I AM ALSO VERY GLAD THAT I'M NO LONGER MISLED BY WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING, THAT I NO LONGER BELIEVE ANYTHING MAINSTREAM MEDIA OR ANY POLITICIAN SAYS.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO AMERICA IS CRIMINAL, AND AS A CITIZEN OF A ONCE GREAT NATION, ONE I WAS PROUD OF, ONE I LOVED, I FEEL THAT WE ALL NEED TO, WITH ONE LOUD, ROARING VOICE, DEMAND A RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION, DESTROY THE PATRIOT ACT, THE NDAA, FEMA, THE NDA (ECHELON), AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, FOR STARTERS, REMOVE EVERY DRONE FROM OUR SKIES, AND MAKE SURE NOTHING LIKE ALL THESE EVILS EVER AGAIN REARS A HEAD IN OUR AMERICA.
IF WE WOULD SAVE OUR NATION, WE MUST OUST EVERY ELECTED OFFICIAL WE HAVE IN WASHINGTON DC WHO VOTED FOR SUCH ABOMINATIONS AND START ANEW.
I AM SICKENED BY WHAT I LEARNED, DEVASTATED,  BUT I AM AWAKE NOW, FOREVER AWAKE!

FIRST SEVERAL ATTEMPTS/ANNOUNCED INTENTION
1~On June 16, 2005 Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) assembled an unofficial meeting to discuss the Downing Street memo and to consider grounds for impeachment.
2~Conyers filed a resolution on December 18, 2005 to create an investigative committee to consider impeachment. His resolution gained 38 co-sponsors before it expired at the end of the 109th Congress. He did not reintroduce a similar resolution for the 110th Congress.
3~Keith Ellison was the leading figure behind the resolution to impeach Bush brought to the Minnesota State House of Representatives in May 2006. Ellison was elected to the United States House of Representatives in November 2006. During the campaign and when he was named to the House Judiciary Committee, Ellison repeatedly called for an investigation into a possible impeachment.
4~Later, on April 22, 2007, Ellison met with constituents and listed new conditions for his support for impeachment hearings, such as verifiable facts and the backing of a majority of the American people.
5~At another unofficial hearing convened by Conyers on January 20, 2006, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) called for the committee to explore whether Bush should face impeachment, stemming from his decision to authorize domestic surveillance without court review.
6~In July 2007, Pelosi stated that she "would probably advocate" impeaching Bush if she were not in the House nor Speaker of the House.
7~On December 8, 2006 (the last day of the 109th Congress), then-Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) submitted a resolution, H. Res. 1106. The bill expired along with the 109th Congress.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/109/hres1106/text
8~John Conyers brought up the subject of impeachment on the July 8, 2007 broadcast of This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
9~Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich's major point in the Democratic Presidential Debate on October 30, 2007 was that Bush and Cheney should be impeached for the Iraq war.
On November 6, 2007, Kucinich introduced a resolution to impeach Vice President Cheney in the House of Representatives.
10~In November 2007, Joe Biden, then a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, stated that he would move to impeach if President Bush were to bomb Iran without first gaining congressional approval.

FURTHER State-level Democratic party actions

On March 21, 2006 the New Mexico Democratic Party, at a convention in Albuquerque, adopted a plank to their platform saying “the Democratic Party of New Mexico supports the impeachment of George Bush and his lawful removal from office.”

On March 24, 2007, the Vermont Democratic State Committee voted to support JRH 15, a state legislative resolution supporting impeachment, calling for its passage as "appropriate action."

On January 2, 2008, Betty Hall (D), an 87-year-old, fourteen-term State Representative, introduced New Hampshire House Resolution 24 in the State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. The resolution was "petitioning Congress to commence impeachment procedures" against Bush and Cheney for "high crimes and misdemeanors", including domestic spying, illegal detentions, signing statements, electioneering, the breaking of international treaties, and war crimes.The bill further asserted that "section 603 of Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice states that an impeachment may be set in motion by the United States House of Representatives by charges transmitted from the legislature of a state".

On February 20, 2008, the bill was ruled "Inexpedient to Legislate" to pass by a 10 to 5 vote within committee, which passed the resolution on to the full House for a vote.The bill was tabled in the New Hampshire House of Representatives on April 16, 2008. After three efforts to have the bill removed from the table were unsuccessful, it died on the table on September 24, 2008.


CONGRESSIONAL IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION
The Kucinich/Wexler impeachment resolution contained 35 articles covering the Iraq war, the Valerie Plame affair, creating a case for war with Iran, capture and treatment of prisoners of war, spying and or wiretapping inside the United States, use of signing statements, failing to Comply with Congressional Subpoenas, the 2004 elections, medicare, Hurricane Katrina, global warming, and 9/11.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hres1258/text
June 10, 2008
Mr. KUCINICH submitted the following resolution
H.Res. 1258 (110th): Impeaching George W. Bush, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors.
110th Congress, 2007–2009. Text as of Jun 11, 2008 (Introduced).
HRES 1258 IH
110th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. RES. 1258
Impeaching George W. Bush, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 11, 2008
By motion of the House, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
~Article I--Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign To Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq

~Article II--Falsely, Systematically, and With Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001 With Misrepresentation of Iraq as an Imminent Security Threat as Part of a Fraudulent Justification for a War of Aggression

~Article III--Misleading the American People and Members of Congress To Believe Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, so as To Manufacture a False Case for War

~Article IV--Misleading the American People and Members of Congress To Believe Iraq Posed an Imminent Threat to the United States

~Article V--Illegally Misspending Funds to Secretly Begin a War of Aggression

~Article VI--Invading Iraq in Violation of the Requirements of H.J. Res. 114

~Article VII--Invading Iraq Absent a Declaration of War

~Article VIII--Invading Iraq, a Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the U.N. Charter and International Criminal Law

~Article IX--Failing To Provide Troops with Body Armor and Vehicle Armor

~Article X--Falsifying Accounts of U.S. Troop Deaths and Injuries for Political Purposes

~Article XX--Imprisoning Children
In May 2008, the U.S. Government reported to the United Nations that it has been holding upwards of 2,500 children under the age of 18 as ‘enemy combatants’ at detention centers in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay (where there was a special center, Camp Iguana, established just for holding children). The length of these detentions has frequently exceeded a year, and in some cases has stretched to five years. Some of these detainees have reached adulthood in detention and are now not being reported as child detainees because they are no longer children.
Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which the United States has been a signatory since 1949, children under the age of 15 captured in conflicts, even if they have been fighting, are to be considered victims, not prisoners. In 2002, the United States signed the Optional Protocol to the Geneva Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of children in Armed Conflict, which raised this age for this category of ‘protected person’ to under 18.

~Article XXII--Creating Secret Laws
In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under article II, section 3 of the Constitution ‘to take care that the laws be faithfully executed’, has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President, established a body of secret laws through the issuance of legal opinions by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).

The OLC’s March 14, 2003, interrogation memorandum (‘Yoo Memorandum’) was declassified years after it served as law for the executive branch.
‘Indeed, a recent court filing by the Department in FOIA litigation involving the Central Intelligence Agency identifies 8 additional secret OLC opinions, dating from August 6, 2004, to February 18, 2007. Given that these reflect only OLC memoranda identified in the files of the CIA, and based on the sampling procedures under which that listing was generated, it appears that these represent only a small portion of the secret OLC memoranda generated during this time, with the true number almost certainly much higher.’.
‘Another body of secret law is the controlling interpretations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that are issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. FISA, of course, is the law that governs the Government’s ability in intelligence investigations to conduct wiretaps and search the homes of people in the United States. Under that statute, the FISA Court is directed to evaluate wiretap and search warrant applications and decide whether the standard for issuing a warrant has been met--a largely factual evaluation that is properly done behind closed doors. But with the evolution of technology and with this Administration’s efforts to get the Court’s blessing for its illegal wiretapping activities, we now know that the Court’s role is broader, and that it is very much engaged in substantive interpretations of the governing statute. These interpretations are as much a part of this country’s surveillance law as the statute itself. Without access to them, it is impossible for Congress or the public to have an informed debate on matters that deeply affect the privacy and civil liberties of all Americans . . .

‘The Administration’s shroud of secrecy extends to agency rules and executive pronouncements, such as Executive Orders, that carry the force of law. Through the diligent efforts of my colleague Senator Whitehouse, we have learned that OLC has taken the position that a President can ‘waive’ or ‘modify’ a published Executive Order without any notice to the public or Congress--simply by not following it.’.
Article XXIII--Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act
Specifically, he has contravened U.S.C. title 18, section 1385, originally enacted in 1878, subsequently amended as ‘Use of Army and Air Force as Posse Comitatus’ and commonly known as the Posse Comitatus Act.

The Act states:

    ‘Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.’.

The Posse Comitatus Act is designed to prevent the military from becoming a national police force.

The Declaration of Independence states as a specific grievance against the British that the King had ‘kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures,’ had ‘affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the civil power,’ and had ‘quarter[ed] large bodies of armed troops among us . . . protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States’.

Despite the Posse Comitatus Act’s intent, and in contravention of the law, President Bush--

    (1) has used military forces for law enforcement purposes on U.S. border patrol;

    (2) has established a program to use military personnel for surveillance and information on criminal activities;

    (3) is using military espionage equipment to collect intelligence information for law enforcement use on civilians within the United States; and

    (4) employs active duty military personnel in surveillance agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

The Air Force’s ‘Eagle Eyes’ program encourages Air Force military staff to gather evidence on American citizens. Eagle Eyes instructs Air Force personnel to engage in surveillance and then advises them to ‘alert local authorities’, asking military staff to surveil and gather evidence on public citizens. This contravenes DoD Directive 5525.5 ‘SUBJECT: DoD Cooperation with Civilian Law Enforcement’ which limits such activities.

President Bush has implemented a program to use imagery from military satellites for domestic law enforcement through the National Applications Office.

President Bush has assigned numerous active duty military personnel to civilian institutions such as the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security, both of which have responsibilities for law enforcement and intelligence.

In addition, on May 9, 2007, President Bush released ‘National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51’, which effectively gives the president unchecked power to control the entire government and to define that government in time of an emergency, as well as the power to determine whether there is an emergency. The document also contains ‘classified Continuity Annexes’. In July 2007, and again in August 2007, Rep. Peter DeFazio, a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, sought access to the classified annexes. DeFazio and other leaders of the Homeland Security Committee, including Chairman Bennie Thompson, have been denied a review of the Continuity of Government classified annexes.

~Article XXIV--Spying on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in Violation of the Law and the Fourth Amendment

~Article XXV--Directing Telecommunications Companies To Create an Illegal and Unconstitutional Database of the Private Telephone Numbers and Emails of American Citizens
~Article XXVI--Announcing the Intent To Violate Laws With Signing Statements, and Violating Those Laws

~Article XXVII--Failing To Comply With Congressional Subpoenas and Instructing Former Employees Not To Comply
Subpoenas not complied with include:

    A House Judiciary Committee subpoena for Justice Department papers and Emails, issued April 10, 2007;

    A House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoena for the testimony of the Secretary of State, issued April 25, 2007;

    A House Judiciary Committee subpoena for the testimony of former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and documents, issued June 13, 2007;

    A Senate Judiciary Committee subpoena for documents and testimony of White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, issued June 13, 2007;

    A Senate Judiciary Committee subpoena for documents and testimony of White House Political Director Sara Taylor, issued June 13, 2007 (Taylor appeared but refused to answer questions);

    A Senate Judiciary Committee subpoena for documents and testimony of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, issued June 26, 2007;

    A Senate Judiciary Committee subpoena for documents and testimony of White House Deputy Political Director J. Scott Jennings, issued June 26, 2007 (Jennings appeared but refused to answer questions);

    A Senate Judiciary Committee subpoena for legal analysis and other documents concerning the NSA warrantless wiretapping program from the White House, Vice President Richard Cheney, The Department of Justice, and the National Security Council. If the documents are not produced, the subpoena requires the testimony of White House chief of staff Josh Bolten, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Cheney chief of staff David Addington, National Security Council executive director V. Philip Lago, issued June 27, 2007; and

    A House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoena for Lt. General Kensinger.

~Article XXVIII--Tampering With Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice
Toward this end, the President and Vice President, both personally and through their agents, did:

    Engage in a program of manufacturing false allegations of voting fraud in targeted jurisdictions where the Democratic Party enjoyed an advantage in electoral performance or otherwise was problematic for the President’s Republican Party, in order that public confidence in election results favorable to the Democratic Party be undermined;

    Direct United States Attorneys to launch and announce investigations of certain leaders, candidates and elected officials affiliated with the Democratic Party at times calculated to cause the most political damage and confusion, most often in the weeks immediately preceding an election, in order that public confidence in the suitability for office of Democratic Party leaders, candidates and elected officials be undermined;

    Direct United States Attorneys to terminate or scale back existing investigations of certain Republican Party leaders, candidates and elected officials allied with the George W. Bush administration, and to refuse to pursue new or proposed investigations of certain Republican Party leaders, candidates and elected officials allied with the George W. Bush administration, in order that public confidence in the suitability of such Republican Party leaders, candidates and elected officials be bolstered or restored; and

    Threaten to terminate the employment of the following United States Attorneys who refused to comply with such directives and purposes;

        David C. Iglesias as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico;

        Kevin V. Ryan as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California;

        John L. McKay as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington;

        Paul K. Charlton as U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona;

        Carol C. Lam as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California;

        Daniel G. Bogden as U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada;

        Margaret M. Chiara as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan;

        Todd Graves as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri;

        Harry E. ‘Bud’ Cummins, III as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas;

        Thomas M. DiBiagio as U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland; and

        Kasey Warner as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia.

Further, George W. Bush has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President conspired to obstruct the lawful Congressional investigation of these dismissals of United States Attorneys and the related scheme to undermine and tamper with the conduct of free and fair elections, and to corrupt the administration of justice. 

Article XXIX--Conspiracy To Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965
has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, has willfully corrupted and manipulated the electoral process of the United States for his personal gain and the personal gain of his co-conspirators and allies; has violated the United States Constitution and law by failing to protect the civil rights of African-American voters and others in the 2004 Election, and has impeded the right of the people to vote and have their vote properly and accurately counted, in that--

    (1) on November 5, 2002, and prior thereto, James Tobin, while serving as the regional director of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee and as the New England Chairman of Bush-Cheney ’04 Inc., did, at the direction of the White House under the administration of George W. Bush, along with other agents both known and unknown, commit unlawful acts by aiding and abetting a scheme to use computerized hang-up calls to jam phone lines set up by the New Hampshire Democratic Party and the Manchester firefighters’ union on Election Day;

    (2) an investigation by the Democratic staff of the House Judiciary Committee into the voting procedures in Ohio during the 2004 election found ‘widespread instances of intimidation and misinformation in violation of the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1968, Equal Protection, Due Process and the Ohio right to vote’;
[***THE LIST HERE IS EXCEPTIONALLY LONG. YOU'LL HAVE TO GO READ IT FOR YOURSELVES TO BELIEVE THE EVIDENCE AGAINST BUSH...THEN YOU MAY NOT BELIEVE IT...DEPENDS ON YOUR PARTY AFFILIATION.***]

~Article XXX--Misleading Congress and the American People in an Attempt To Destroy Medicare
The President created, manipulated, and disseminated information given to the citizens and Congress of the United States in support of his prescription drug plan for Medicare that enriched drug companies while failing to save beneficiaries sufficient money on their prescription drugs. He misled Congress and the American people into thinking the cost of the benefit was $400 billion. It was widely understood that if the cost exceeded that amount, the bill would not pass due to concerns about fiscal irresponsibility.

A Medicare Actuary who possessed information regarding the true cost of the plan, $539 billion, was instructed by the Medicare Administrator to deny Congressional requests for it. The Actuary was threatened with sanctions if the information was disclosed to Congress, which, unaware of the information, approved the bill. Despite the fact that official cost estimates far exceeded $400 billion, President Bush offered assurances to Congress that the cost was $400 billion, when his office had information to the contrary. In the House of Representatives, the bill passed by a single vote and the Conference Report passed by only 5 votes. The White House knew the actual cost of the drug benefit was high enough to prevent its passage. Yet the White House concealed the truth and impeded an investigation into its culpability.

~Article XXXI--Katrina: Failure To Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure To Respond to a Civil Emergency

~Article XXXII--Misleading Congress and the American People, Systematically Undermining Efforts To Address Global Climate Change
President Bush knew the expected effects of climate change and the role of human activities in driving climate change. This knowledge preceded his first Presidential term.
(1) During his 2000 Presidential campaign, he promised to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.
(2) In March of 2008, Representative Henry Waxman wrote to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson: ‘In August 2003, the Bush Administration denied a petition to regulate CO2 emissions from motor vehicles by deciding that CO2 was not a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. In April 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled that determination in Massachusetts v. EPA. The Supreme Court wrote that ‘If EPA makes a finding of endangerment, the Clean Air Act requires the agency to regulate emissions of the deleterious pollutant from new motor vehicles.’. The EPA then conducted an extensive investigation involving 60-70 staff who concluded that ‘CO2 emissions endanger both human health and welfare.’. These findings were submitted to the White House, after which work on the findings and the required regulations was halted.’.
The President has suppressed the release of scientific information related to global climate change, an action which undermines Congress’s ability to legislate and provide oversight, and which has thwarted efforts to prevent global climate change despite the serious threat that it poses.
(1) In February, 2001, ExxonMobil wrote a memo to the White House outlining ways to influence the outcome of the Third Assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The memo opposed the reelection of Dr. Robert Watson as the IPCC Chair. The White House then supported an opposition candidate, who was subsequently elected to replace Dr. Watson.

(2) The New York Times on January 29, 2006, reported that James Hansen, NASA’s senior climate scientist was warned of ‘dire consequences’ if he continued to speak out about global climate change and the need for reducing emissions of associated gasses. The Times also reported that: ‘At climate laboratories of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for example, many scientists who routinely took calls from reporters five years ago can now do so only if the interview is approved by administration officials in Washington, and then only if a public affairs officer is present or on the phone.’.

(3) In December of 2007, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a report based on 16 months of investigation and 27,000 pages of documentation. According to the summary: ‘The evidence before the Committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush Administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policy makers and the public about the dangers of global warming.’ The report described how the White House appointed former petroleum industry lobbyist Phil Cooney as head of the Council on Environmental Quality. The report states ‘There was a systematic White House effort to minimize the significance of climate change by editing climate change reports. CEQ Chief of Staff Phil Cooney and other CEQ officials made at least 294 edits to the Administration’s Strategic Plan of the Climate Change Science Program to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to de-emphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming.’.

~Article XXXIII--Repeatedly Ignored and Failed To Respond to High Level Intelligence Warnings of Planned Terrorist Attacks in the U.S., Prior to 9/11
Again, there is no evidence that the president held any meetings or took any action to deal with the threats of such attacks.

~Article XXXIV--Obstruction of Investigation Into the Attacks of September 11, 2001
Following September 11, 2001, President Bush and Vice President Cheney took strong steps to thwart any and all proposals that the circumstances of the attack be addressed. Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell was forced to renege on his public promise on September 23 that a ‘White Paper’ would be issued to explain the circumstances. Less than two weeks after that promise, Powell apologized for his ‘unfortunate choice of words’, and explained that Americans would have to rely on ‘information coming out in the press and in other ways’.

On September 26, 2001, President Bush drove to Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters in Langley, Virginia, stood with Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet and said: ‘My report to the nation is, we’ve got the best intelligence we can possibly have thanks to the men and women of the C.I.A.’ George Tenet subsequently and falsely claimed not to have visited the president personally between the start of Bush’s long Crawford vacation and September 11, 2001.
A White House press release suggests Tenet was also there a week later, on August 24. According to the August 25, 2001, release, President Bush, addressing a group of visitors to Crawford on August 25, told them: ‘George Tenet and I, yesterday, we piled in the new nominees for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice Chairman and their wives and went right up the canyon.’.

~Article XXXV--Endangering the Health of 9/11 First Responders
In the cleanup of the Pentagon following September 11, 2001, Occupational Safety and Health Administration laws were enforced, and no workers became ill. At the World Trade Center site, the same laws were not enforced.
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FULL PDF IS AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD HERE;http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-110hres1258ih/pdf/BILLS-110hres1258ih.pdf

I KNOW, I KNOW, HALF THE NATION WILL NEVER WANT TO COME TO GRIPS WITH WHAT THESE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS KNEW AND THE THINGS THAT MADE THEM SEEK TO HAVE BUSH2 IMPEACHED, BUT THERE IT IS.
WHY HE WAS NOT IMPEACHED IS A COMPLICATED STORY, BUT IT DOES GO BACK TO WHAT HAPPENED WHEN HIS FATHER, GEORGE H.W. BUSH WAS ALSO NOT IMPEACHED.
IT IS A STORY OF MANY TWISTS AND TURNS, AND IT IS DARK, MY FRIENDS, VERY DARK.

BOTH BUSH2 AND CHENEY HAVE ALSO BEEN INDICTED BY INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS OF MORE THAN ONE SOURCE.
BOTH ARE REPORTEDLY AFRAID TO LEAVE THE UNITED STATES....CHENEY WON'T GO TO CANADA, BUSH WON'T GO TO PLACES IN AFRICA AND EUROPE.

<<Bush Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia
May 12, 2012 , Kuala Lumpur
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/12/bush-convicted-of-war-crimes-in-absentia/

In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were yesterday (Fri) found guilty of war crimes.

Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia.

The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.

At the end of the week-long hearing, the five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.

Full transcripts of the charges, witness statements and other relevant material will now be sent to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.>>

<<Who’s Afraid of War Crimes Prosecution? – Cheney cancels Toronto speaking event
17 March 2012
http://www.corbettreport.com/whos-afraid-of-war-crimes-prosecution-cheney-cancels-toronto-speaking-event/
Former US Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Elizabeth, have cancelled a planned speaking engagement at Toronto’s Metro Convention Centre next month, citing safety concerns. According to the president of the promotion company that booked Cheney for the April 24th speech, “He felt that in Canada the risk of violent protest was simply too high. They specifically referenced what happened in Vancouver.”

The reference is to a fierce protest of Cheney’s speech in British Columbia last September which necessitated the use of Vancouver riot police and kept Cheney locked inside the speaking venue for seven hours while crowds were dispersed.

Cheney is not the first credibly accused war criminal from the Bush Administration to cancel a speaking arrangement due to concerns about popular protest or even arrest.

In early 2011 former President George W. Bush was forced to cancel a trip to Switzerland to speak at a fundraiser for the United Israel Appeal after it was revealed that a number of human rights groups were planning to prosecute Bush for war crimes, including contravention of the Convention Against Torture to which the United States is a signatory.

The first such attempt to prosecute Bush occurred in 2009 during the former president’s first trip abroad since leaving office, when he spoke at the Telus Convention Centre in downtown Calgary, Canada. At the time, Lawyers Against the War and other groups lobbied Canadian prosecutors to fulfill their duties under the Canadian War Crimes Act to arrest and try Bush for his documented participation in the commission of torture techniques during his reign as president.>>

LIKE IN 'WIZARD OF OZ', ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS "FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD" TO GET TO THE MAN (OR MEN) BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF THIS GRAND ILLUSION WE CALL A FREE NATION.
[HERE IS A HINT: ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME, TO A CLUB OF ROME]
LIKE ME, MOST WON'T WANT TO SEE BEHIND THE CURTAIN, BUT ONCE YOU DO AND THE SHOCK WEARS OFF, THERE IS A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF REALITY AND TRUTH.
IT'S SCARY, THAT REALITY, BUT NO BRAVE AMERICAN WILL FAIL TO SEE THAT REALITY BEATS FICTION EVERY DAY.
FREEDOM HAS A COST.
WE PAY THAT COST OR WE LOSE FREEDOM.