Republicans and Independents for Impeaching Bush and Cheney

A Reader-Companion to Vincent Bugliosi’s “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder”

November 10, 2008: Rep. Conyers Promises Post-election Impeachment Hearing

After the bailout of gangsters on Wall Street, the time has come for Americans in both parties to reach across the aisle to shake up what may now be known as the Complicit Party, which has both its Democrat and GOP flavors, and which has treasonously given the inheritance of American children to cover the losses of Chinese and British investment companies. As well, the opportunity has come for the formation of a Patriot Coalition which draws from the best of both parties, and would include both liberals and conservatives such as Dana Rohrabacher, Duncan Hunter, Dennis Kucinich, and Ron Paul. What unites patriots today is far stronger than what has divided them.

With conservatives such as John Lillpop penning articles entitled “Mr. President, Your Helicopter is Waiting”, and with Americans in mobilized fury over the Wall Street Bailout, the atmosphere has never been better for Americans to act in unison to restore the Constitution, to clip the wings of those complicit in many forms of treason, to break the power of the Wall Street robber barons who buy congressmen like so many prostitutes, and to curb the back-door union-busting of illegal immigration.

Now high on the list of actions to be forced by We the People is the impeachment of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, for complicity in international war crimes. The Constitution allows for the impeachment of “The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States.” Pelosi’s high position as Speaker of the House obliged her, more than others, to begin investigations on the torture of men who were later deemed innocent, when she was briefed on it by the Bush administration. The impeachment of Senator William Blount in 1798 shows that “all civil officers” includes congressmembers and senators.

The impeachment trial of Senator Blount was on December 17, 1798. The impeachment of Bill Clinton was on December 16th. Christmas time seems to be impeachment time in this country.

For the country to have a clean sweep, it’s time to own up to the role Pelosi had in abiding the torture of prisoners who were so innocent they were released.

Army Maj. General Antonio Taguba (Ret.) writes:

“There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”

Gen. Taguba is referencing the report –”Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact.” According to ABC News, the report:

“…details medical evaluations of 11 former detainees held by the US military in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. None were ever charged with any crime; all have since been released.”

Spencer Ackerman of The New Republic wrote in “Pelosi: I Knew Very Very Little About Waterboarding Detainees” of how Pelosi had been briefed about torture…and said nothing. Pelosi implied that Rep. Jane Harman, who succeeded Pelosi in the House Intelligence Committee, and with whom her enmity is well-known, certainly knew more about the dastardly deeds than she:

“On one occasion, in the fall of 2002, I was briefed on interrogation techniques the Administration was considering using in the future. The Administration advised that legal counsel for the both the CIA and the Department of Justice had concluded that the techniques were legal.

“I had no further briefings on the techniques. Several months later, my successor as Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman, was briefed more extensively and advised the techniques had in fact been employed. It was my understanding at that time that Congresswoman Harman filed a letter in early 2003 to the CIA to protest the use of such techniques, a protest with which I concurred.”

Rep. Pelosi was obliged to do much more than “concur,” after the fact and off-the-record, with a protest of illegal behavior. She was obliged to investigate.
Brecher and Smith at Alternet.org opine:

“If so, it would answer one of the great mysteries of 2007. The Democrats, once in control of Congress, had the courage to pursue cutoff of funds for the Iraq war, even though the Bush administration was happy to take advantage of their effort by characterizing it as failure to support the troops. The obvious companion strategy would have been to conduct intensive investigations to show that the entire Bush project has been to subvert law and Constitutional government in the interests of aggrandizing power nationally and internationally.

“But Congressional Democrats have systematically avoided serious investigation of Bush administration lawlessness, and so far have retreated from using the power of contempt when the Bush officials have refused to respond to subpoenas.”Could this be because some Democratic leaders in effect colluded in Bush administration crimes — knew about them but failed to report them?”

General Taguba maintains in his comments on the report “Broken Laws, Broken Lives”:

“This story is not only written in words: It is scrawled for the rest of these individuals’ lives on their bodies and minds. Our national honor is stained by the indignity and inhumane treatment these men received from their captors.”

Congress must return from the elections to a full schedule of work and committee hearings. It is vital that the precedents this administration has set be blackened by the impeachment process, or we are all torturers.

It is clear that Speaker Pelosi is not qualified to preside over this unfolding rebirth of the republic. Impeach Bush. Impeach Cheney. And impeach Nancy Pelosi.

This 28-year old on MySpace has put together one of the most moving videos I have ever seen, of Bush Cheney and the rest saying one thing then exactly the opposite. Alex has captured them in their own words coming from their own mouths. Shame on Democrats, shame on Republicans for not getting it. No one will finish watching this short video unaffected.
Presenting: “Impeach the Bastards”

What to Do, 10,000 Voicemails Campaign
Impeachment groups across the country are setting the goal of leaving 10,000 voicemails for congressmen by the time they return to their offices Tuesday morning, after Labor Day. The recent ruling that Harriet Meirs must testify before the House Judiciary Committee in September gives HJC Chairman Conyers the chance to do exactly what former congresswoman Liz Holtzman suggested in the near-impeachment hearings last month. Holtzman back in the ’70s was on Judiciary when they were impeaching Nixon. [Read more →]

There has been discussion within the impeachment movement over whether George Bush can formally be accused of treason, or if such accusations are fanciful and would not meet legal muster. I believe they would. Some pretty smart lawyers I know are discussing this question, and as a layman I can only apply the law as I understand it.

Valerie Plame

The first case for treason centers on Valerie Plame. The definition of treason according to Article 3, Section 3, of the US Constitution:

“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”

On July 12, 2007 George Bush admitted:

“Somebody in his administration leaked the name of that person, Valerie Plame”

In the Dorgan-Waxman Committee Hearings of July 22, 2005, on the damage to the national security done by Plame’s identification, an expert witness, Special Forces Col. Patrick Lang said that, as a result of Plame’s identification:

“The possibility of penetrating these groups, the possibility of knowing that they’re going to carry 10-pound bags of explosive in the subway stations, will go right down the drain.”

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…Your own, whose email contact form is HERE, and those on the House Judiciary Committee, whose names are here. To get the email address of any congressman just follow this pattern: FIRSTNAME.LASTNAME@mail.house.gov It’s always the same. Example: Lamar.Smith@mail.house.gov When you email the link to the video include your own message to impeach, such as just “Impeach Bush NOW” or your own detailed reasons. Here is something to work from. And here is a nice little Wikipedia primer on impeachment to bone up with.

THEN be sure to email the link to the video to their major campaign contributors, emails all ready to go HERE (just click the links in the last column) and say “Please tell this congressman whose campaign you contribute to, to IMPEACH BUSH!” Or something like that. Have fun. You are saving your country.

Alex’s video from MySpace (SOME STRONG LANGUAGE, not as obscene as what our troops are having to go through in Iraq.)

impeach the bastards

ARTICLES OF INTEREST:

Devvy Kidd of World News Daily: “Normal People Don’t Want Impeachment?”

Jerome Corsi on YouTube: “Impeach Bush Over Illegal Immigration”

MOST WANTED!

Most Wanted for failure to impeach Bush and Cheney when they could have stopped these war criminals. When indictments come around after Bush-Cheney leave office, now Pelosi is in it too.

Most Wanted CONYERS: Complicity in War Crimes for Failure to Impeach

Above: Vincent Bugliosi on Bush War Crimes, House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearings July 25, 2008
Entire playlist of hearings on Youtube HERE

In the hullaballoo over whether Bush really said whether or not there was a link between Saddam and 9/11, in the run-up to the Iraq War, an impeachable offense, we can all stop arguing.

The Authorization to Use Force Against Iraq REQUIRED Bush to certify a link between Saddam and 9/11:

–”I have also determined that the use of armed force against Iraq is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.” -George Bush, certification to Congress to authorize the use of force in Iraq, March 23, 2003

“Armed force against Iraq is consistent with”…actions against…nations…who…aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11,” is what that sentence reads, with the lawyerly gobbledygook stripped out. In other words, Saddam “aided” 9/11. [Read more →]

With the Judge Bates ruling against immunity for Harriet Meirs, and ruling that “executive privilege” claims are invalid against orders to produce certain documents, it is clear that congress has no business going into recess in the middle of a constitutional crisis. They have just been handed a major victory, by a Bush appointee, no less. Republicans of integrity are emerging from the shadows, most dramatically with the nine who broke with the party to vote for having the hearings which took place on July 25. Judge Bates said: Even if you’re my friend, George, you still have to, um, obey the law.

The next order of business is to prevail upon congress to cancel its summer recess, to complete the unfinished business of restoring the Republic over the New Executive Branch Monarchy, through impeachment. The most common argument by the well-meaning American for why impeachment is a “waste of time” is that they will be out soon. This is like saying, while a gang is robbing a bank and down to carting away the furniture, they’ll be done soon.

You don’t wait until they’re done. You intervene.

The damage to the Constitution and the rule of law cannot be allowed to stand, as the partisans in any party which holds a majority in the future will be able to say, “well Bush did it.” Start a disastrous war based on lies? Well Bush did it. Trample the rights of even born-and-bred American citizens? Well Bush did it. Torture prisoners of war who later turned out to be innocent, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time? Well Bush did it. All because Americans have forgotten who they are and have begun acting like sheep every time Bush plays the Fear Button. Our forefathers on the nation’s battlefields of generations past would disown us, to see how soft and cowardly 60 years of prosperity have made us.

The only warning we needed that these people were out of control was when Bush declared the radical doctrine of wartime powers which over-ruled the Fourth (search and seizure) and Sixth (jury trial) Amendments of the Constitution, forever. He took powers which existed in previous wars then applied them to “a new kind of war,” meaning: The permanent kind. The power to throw someone in a dungeon to rot or to ransack his home, without a warrant, are the powers of a monarch. And in America, we don’t do monarchs.

If congress does not cancel summer recess, referred to in the official calendar as their “District Work Period,” we must be clear that we will be camped on their front lawns with signs. They will come out and talk to us and explain why they aren’t in Washington doing their jobs. There will be no fiddling while Rome burns.

Contact your own congressman

Phone numbers for House Judiciary Committee (has outstanding subpoena to Harriet Meirs, has held one impeachment hearing).

What Price Freedom, and the Way of Life We Have Enjoyed? Of the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence:

-Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.

-Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.

-Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.

-Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.

-Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.

-Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him.

-Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

-Legend has it when Thomas Nelson Jr was told the British General Cornwallis had taken over his home for British headquarters, he replied, “Blow the damn thing down.” Nelson’s house is still standing at Yorktown and there are cannonballs embedded in its east wall.

-Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

-John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.

Contact your own congressman

Phone numbers for House Judiciary Committee (has outstanding subpoena to Harriet Meirs, has held one impeachment hearing).

House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, Chairman, Full hearings on YouTube HERE

C-SPAN video (Realplayer required):

Panel 1

Panel 2

Nine Republicans have broken ranks to vote to send Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s article of impeachment HR 1345 to the House Judiciary Committee, where Chairman John Conyers will hold hearings.  10 Republicans abstained from voting, while 6 Democrats abstained.

The Republicans are (Yea 238 - Nay 180):

Congressman Kevin Brady (TX)
Congressman Wayne Gilchrest (MD)
Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC)
Representative Don Manzullo (IL)
U.S. Congressman Tim Murphy(PA)
Congressman Ron Paul (TX)
Congressman Dave Reichert (WA)
Congressman Christopher Shays (CT)
Representative Mike Turner (OH)

One of the Republicans, Walter Jones, represents Camp LeJeune in North Carolina, one of the largest Marine bases in the country, and one which has borne heavily the sacrifice of the Iraq War.

The impeachment article focuses narrowly on administration claims that Saddam possessed WMD in the run-up to the Iraq war, and that there was a connection between Hussein and 9/11. Kucinich’s article relies partly on the famous Downing Street Memo, the transcript of a gathering of the British Prime Minister’s senior ministers on July 23, 2002. The DSM includes such passages as:

“C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” - Downing Street Memo.

The facts were being fixed around the policy. Facts. Fixed. In other words, they lied.

Now over 4,100 fine young men and women are dead. The Judiciary Committee will have the opportunity to adopt the article of impeachment to send back to the House for a full House vote. Let the congressmen take a stand, and put themselves on the record for history, the cabal which buried its constitutional duty for party or politics or out of sheer weak-kneed cowardice, which is a stench next to the fiber of the Americans we lost, and those who still dart across alleys laced with machine gun fire somewhere in Iraq, in answer to the call of their country. How wrong that these courageous are not the ones making the decisions for our country.

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