[WCUSP] Cynthia McKinney files Congressional resolution to impeach Bush, Cheney & Rice]
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> Where the voice of courage comes from:
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> "No American is above the law"
>
> Rep. McKinney's floor statement on the impeachment
> of George W. Bush
>
> By Cynthia McKinney
>
> Published: Friday December 8th, 2006
>
> Mr. Speaker:
>
> I come before this body today as a proud American
> and as a servant of
> the American people, sworn to uphold the
> Constitution of the United
> States.
>
> Throughout my tenure, I’ve always tried to speak the
> truth. It’s that
> commitment that brings me here today.
>
> We have a President who has misgoverned and a
> Congress that has
> refused to hold him accountable. It is a grave
> situation and I
> believe the stakes for our country are high.
>
> No American is above the law, and if we allow a
> President to violate,
> at the most basic and fundamental level, the trust
> of the people and
> then continue to govern, without a process for
> holding him accountable
> —what does that say about our commitment to the
> truth? To the
> Constitution? To our democracy?
>
> The trust of the American people has been broken.
> And a process must
> be undertaken to repair this trust. This process
> must begin with
> honesty and accountability.
>
> Leading up to our invasion of Iraq, the American
> people supported
> this Administration’s actions because they believed
> in our President.
> They believed he was acting in good faith. They
> believed that
> American laws and American values would be
> respected. That in the
> weightiness of everything being considered, two
> values were rock solid
> —trust and truth.
>
> From mushroom clouds to African yellow cake to
> aluminum tubes, the
> American people and this Congress were not presented
> the facts, but
> rather were presented a string of untruths, to
> justify the invasion
> of Iraq.
>
> President Bush, along with Vice President Cheney and
> then-National
> Security Advisor Rice, portrayed to the Congress and
> to the American
> people that Iraq represented an imminent threat,
> culminating with
> President Bush’s claim that Iraq was six months away
> from developing
> a nuclear weapon. Having used false fear to buy
> consent—the President
> then took our country to war.
>
> This has grave consequences for the health of our
> democracy, for our
> standing with our allies, and most of all, for the
> lives of our men
> and women in the military and their families—who
> have been asked to
> make sacrifices—including the ultimate sacrifice—to
> keep us safe.
>
> Just as we expect our leaders to be truthful, we
> expect them to abide
> by the law and respect our courts and judges. Here
> again, the
> President failed the American people.
>
> When President Bush signed an executive order
> authorizing unlawful
> spying on American citizens, he circumvented the
> courts, the law, and
> he violated the separation of powers provided by the
> Constitution.
> Once the program was revealed, he then tried to hide
> the scope of his
> offense from the American people by making
> contradictory, untrue
> statements.
>
> President George W. Bush has failed to preserve,
> protect, and defend
> the Constitution of the United States; he has failed
> to ensure that
> senior members of his administration do the same;
> and he has betrayed
> the trust of the American people.
>
> With a heavy heart and in the deepest spirit of
> patriotism, I
> exercise my duty and responsibility to speak
> truthfully about what is
> before us. To shy away from this responsibility
> would be easier. But
> I have not been one to travel the easy road. I
> believe in this
> country, and in the power of our democracy. I feel
> the steely
> conviction of one who will not let the country I
> love descend into
> shame; for the fabric of our democracy is at stake.
>
> Some will call this a partisan vendetta, others will
> say this is an
> unimportant distraction to the plans of the incoming
> Congress. But
> this is not about political gamesmanship.
>
> I am not willing to put any political party before
> my principles.
>
> This, instead, is about beginning the long road back
> to regaining the
> high standards of truth and democracy upon which our
> great country
> was founded.
>
> Mr. Speaker:
>
> Under the standards set by the United States
> Constitution, President
> Bush—along with Vice President Cheney, and Secretary
> of State Rice—
> should be subject to the process of impeachment, and
> I have filed H.
> Res. _ in the House of Representatives.
>
> To my fellow Americans, as I leave this Congress, it
> is in your hands—
> to hold your representatives accountable, and to
> show those with the
> courage to stand for what is right, that they do not
> stand alone.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
http://gnn.tv/articles/2792/_No_American_is_above_the_law
>
>
>
> _____________________________
> _____________________________
>
>
>
> http://www.oilempire.us/blog.html
> December 8, 2006 - McKinney introduces Impeachment
> resolution for
> Bush, Cheney & Rice
>
> Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) introduced a resolution
> to impeach
> George W. Bush, Richard Cheney and Condolezza Rice
> today. Since
> McKinney was defeated in a primary run-off in
> August, the resolution
> will be her final act as a member of Congress
> (unless she runs for
> office again in 2008 and is elected).
>
> Most pundits will probably ignore or ridicule the
> resolution, since
> she is a pariah in the Democratic Party, the
> Democrats don't want to
> impeach, and McKinney is leaving Congress anyway.
> But it is a "shot
> across the bow" for the incoming Democratic
> Congressional leadership
> that they need to perform their Constitutional duty
> to uphold the
> rule of law and impeach officials who hijacked the
> country for their
> illegal wars. Hopefully, the grassroots pressure for
> accountability
> and impeachment can use this resolution as a basis
> for "regime
> change" in the new Congress.
>
>
> _____________________________
> _____________________________
>
>
>
http://mattpascarella.blogspot.com/2006/12/congresswoman-mckinney-
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> files-articles.html
> 12.08.2006
> Congresswoman McKinney Files Articles of Impeachment
> By Matt Pascarella
>
>
> _____________________________
> _____________________________
>
>
>
>
>
http://www.truthout.org/pdf/5.120806.HR1106_impeachment.pdf
> full copy of McKinney's resolution to impeach Bush,
> Cheney and Rice
>
> 109TH CONGRESS
> 2ND SESSION
>
> H. Res. 1106
>
> Articles of Impeachment against George Walker Bush,
> President of the United States of America, and other
> officials, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
>
> _____________________________
>
> IN THE HOUSE OF
> REPESENTATIVES
>
> DECEMBER 8, 2006
>
> Ms. McKINNEY introduced the following Resolution:
>
> _____________________________
>
>
> RESOLUTION
>
> Resolved, that George Walker Bush, President of the
> United States,
> is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and
> that
> the following Articles of Impeachment be exhibited
> to the
> United States Senate:
>
> Articles of Impeachment exhibited by the House of
> Representatives of the United States of America in
> the
> name of itself and of all the people of the United
> States of
> America, against George Walker Bush, President of
> the
> United States of America, and other officials, in
> maintenance and support of its impeachment against
> him
> for high crimes and misdemeanors.
>
> Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of
> the United States of America in Congress assembled
> that:
>
> ARTICLE I. FAILURE TO PRESERVE, PROTECT
> AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION
>
> In violation of the oath of office, which reads: "I
> do
> solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully
> execute the
> Office of President of the United States, and will
> to the best
> of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the
> Constitution
> of the United States," George Walker Bush, in his
> conduct
> while President of the United States has
> demonstrated a
> pattern of abuse of office and of executive
> privilege, and
> disregard for the Constitution itself.
>
> This conduct includes the following:
>
> Manipulating Intelligence and Lying to Justify War.
>
> In violation of the separation of powers under the
> Constitution and his subsequent obligation to share
> intelligence with the Congress, George Walker Bush,
> while
> serving as President of the United States of
> America, in
> preparing the invasion of Iraq, did withhold
> intelligence
> from the Congress, by refusing to provide Congress
> with
> the full intelligence picture that he was being
> given, by
> redacting information by, for example, removing
> portions
> of reports such as the August 6, 2001 Presidential
> Daily
> Brief, and actively manipulating the intelligence on
> Iraq"s
> alleged weapons programs by pressuring the Central
> Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies
> to
> provide intelligence such that Òthe intelligence and
> facts
> were being fixed around the policy" as revealed in
> the
> "Downing Street Memo." To this end, President George
> Walker Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld
> created
> the Office of Special Plans inside the Pentagon to
> override
> existing intelligence reports by providing
> unreliable
> evidence that supported the claim that Iraq's
> alleged
> weapons of mass destruction posed an imminent threat
> to
> the United States of America. By justifying the
> invasion of
> Iraq with false and misleading statements linking
> Iraq to
> the attacks of September 11, 2001, and falsely
> asserting
> that Iraq had a nuclear weapons program for which it
> was
> importing aluminum tubes and uranium, these
> assertions
> being either false, or based on "fixed"
> intelligence, with the
> intent to misinform the people and their
> representatives in
> Congress in order to gain their support for invading
> Iraq,
> denying both the people and their representatives in
> Congress the right to make an informed choice,
> George
> Walker Bush, President of the United States, did
> commit
> and was guilty of high crimes against the United
> States of
> America.
>
> ARTICLE II. ABUSE OF OFFICE AND OF
> EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE.
>
> In violation of his oath to "faithfully execute the
> office of
> President of the United States," George Walker Bush,
> in his
> conduct while President of the United States, has
> consistently demonstrated disregard for that oath by
> obstructing and hindering the work of Congressional
> investigative bodies and by seeking to expand the
> scope of
> the powers of his office.
>
> This conduct includes the following:
>
> Failure to Uphold Accountability.
>
> In abrogation of his responsibility under the oath
> of office
> to take care that the Laws be faithfully executed,
> by which
> he agreed to act in good faith and accept
> responsibility for
> the overall conduct of the Executive Branch, a duty
> vested
> in his office alone under the Constitution, George
> Walker
> Bush, failed to take responsibility for, investigate
> or
> discipline those responsible for an ongoing pattern
> of
> negligence, incompetence and malfeasance to the
> detriment
> of the American people.
>
> Those whom George Walker Bush, as President of the
> United States of America, has failed to hold to
> account
> include but are not limited to the following
> top-level
> officials in his administration:
>
> (a) Richard Cheney. In violation of his oath of
> office to
> support and defend the Constitution, Richard Cheney,
> Vice
> President of the United States of America, played a
> key
> role in manipulating intelligence in the interest of
> promoting the illegal invasion of Iraq by pressuring
> analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency to "fix"
> their
> intelligence estimates of the danger posed by Iraq
> in
> relation to weapons of mass destruction, whereby
> Richard
> Cheney, Vice President of the United States, did
> commit
> and was guilty of high crimes against the United
> States of
> America.
>
> (b) Condoleezza Rice, In violation of her
> Constitutional
> duty to share and provide accurate and truthful
> intelligence
> information with the Congress, as former National
> Security
> Advisor to the President, did play a leading role in
> deceiving Congress and the American public by
> repeating
> and propagating false statements concerning Iraq's
> alleged
> weapons of mass destruction program, including false
> information that the purchase of aluminum tubes
> demonstrated that Iraq was pursuing a nuclear
> weapons
> program, false information that Iraq was seeking to
> purchase uranium and false information that Iraq
> sought
> help in developing a chemical and biological weapons
> program; whereby Conoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
> of
> the United States of America, did commit and was
> guilty of
> high misdemeanors against the United States of
> America.
>
> By neglecting to superintend the conduct of these
> officials
> and to hold members of the Executive Branch
> responsible
> for their negligence or violations of law, George
> Walker
> Bush, President of the United States, did commit and
> was
> guilty of high misdemeanors against the United
> States of
> America.
>
> Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George
> Walker Bush, Richard Cheney and Condoleezza Rice
> warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office.
>
> ARTICLE III. FAILURE TO ENSURE THE LAWS
> ARE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED
>
> In violation of his duty under Article II, Section 3
> of the
> Constitution of the United States of America to
> "take Care
> that the Laws be faithfully executed," George Walker
> Bush,
> during his tenure as President of the United States,
> has
> violated the letter and spirit of laws and rules of
> criminal
> procedure used by civilian and military courts, and
> has
> violated or ignored regulatory codes and practices
> that
> carry out the law.
>
> This conduct includes the following:
>
> Illegal Domestic Spying.
>
> In violation of the Foreign Intelligence
> Surveillance Act
> (FISA) [50 USC Chapter 36], George Walker Bush did
> clandestinely direct the National Security Agency
> and
> various other intelligence agencies, in secret and
> outside
> the lawful scope of their mandates, for purposes
> unrelated
> to any lawful function of his offices, to conduct
> electronic
> surveillance of citizens of the United States on
> U.S. soil
> without seeking to obtain, before or after, a
> judicial warrant,
> thereby subverting the powers of the Congress and
> the
> Judiciary by circumventing the Foreign Intelligence
> Surveillance Act (FISA) courts established by
> Congress,
> whose express purpose is to check such abuses of
> executive
> power, provoking the presiding judge of the Foreign
> Intelligence Surveillance Court to file a complaint
> and
> another judge to resign in protest, the said program
> having
> been subsequently ruled illegal (ACLU vs. NSA); he
> has
> also concealed the existence of this unlawful
> program of
> spying on American citizens from the people and all
> but a
> few of their representatives in Congress, even
> resorting to
> outright public deceit as on 20 April, 2004, when he
> told an
> audience in Buffalo, New York: "any time you hear
> the
> United States government talking about wiretap, it
> requires . . . a court order. Nothing has changed,
> by the way.
> When we're talking about chasing down terrorists,
> we're
> talking about getting a court order before we do
> so,"
> whereby said George Walker Bush, President of the
> United
> States, did commit and was guilty of high crimes
> against
> the United States of America.
>
> In all of this, George Walker Bush has repeatedly
> and
> unapologetically misled the American people and has
> sought to undermine the system of checks and
> balances
> established by the Founding Founders. Wherefore
> George
> Walker Bush, by such conduct, and in the interest of
> saving
> our Constitution and our democracy from the threat
> of
> arbitrary government, warrants impeachment and
> trial, and
> removal from office.
>
>
> _____________________________
> _____________________________
>
>
> McKinney was featured in the documentary American
> Blackout from
> Guerrilla News Network, an excellent film about
> racist voter fraud in
> recent elections. American Blackout includes video
> clips of McKinney
> quizzing War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about the
> 9/11 war games, the
> missing trillions of dollars, and military
> contractors engaged in
> child prostitution, scandals that are too big to be
> covered by the
> media or most of the Democratic Party.
> http://www.americanblackout.com
> http://www.gnn.tv
>
>
>
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030105_mckinney_question.shtml
> "Mr. Chairman, I have a question"
> On-the-Record: Representative Cynthia McKinney Rocks
> Rumsfeld on War
> Games
> and a follow-up:
> http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/
> ww3/031505_mckinney_transcript.shtml
>
>
>
> _____________________________
> _____________________________
>
>
> McKinney was the chair of the 9/11 Citizens
> Commission, an incredible
> hearing held in New York City on September 9, 2004.
> The documentary
> produced from this event is the single best video
> about 9/11
> complicity. Excellent as an introduction to the
> best evidence
> without the hoaxes that infest many efforts on this
> issue. Speakers
> include Cynthia McKinney, John Judge, Michael
> Ruppert, Jenna Orkin,
> Barrie Zwicker, Michael Springman, Indira Singh, and
> several others.
>
> A transcript is at
> http://911citizenswatch.org/September-Hearings.pdf
>
>
>
> a few links for further reading:
>
> http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/ -
> writings on 9/11 and
> other deep politics from John Judge, McKinney's
> assistant in her DC
> Congressional office
>
> http://www.oilempire.us/impeach.html - more on
> impeachment
>
> http://www.oilempire.us/wargames.html - the 9/11
> wargames
>
> http://www.oilempire.us/trillions.html - the
> Pentagon's missing
> trillions
>
>
>
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