On the Road to Impeachment

On December 8, 2006, Representative Cynthia Mc Kinney (D-Georgia) introduced House Resolution 1106 which calls for the impeachment of President George W. Bush, and the removal of Vice-President Richard Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

In the House Resolution, Ms. Mc Kinney establishes three Articles that warrant such an action. These Articles include failure to preserve, protect and defend the constitution; abuse of executive privilege; and failure to ensure the laws are faithfully executed.

According to Ms. Mc Kinney, Bush failed to uphold his oath of office through his conduct of "manipulating intelligence and lying to justify war". She states that Mr. Bush is constitutionally obligated to share intelligence information with the U.S. Congress and failed to do so leading up to the subsequent "invasion" of Iraq.

To this charge, Ms. Mc Kinney suggests that Bush and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld created the Office of Special Plans wherein Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence information was redacted and tailored toward the manipulation of both Congress and the American people.

In the second Article, Ms. Mc Kinney charges that Bush "failed to take responsibility for, investigate or discipline those responsible for an on-going pattern of negligence, incompetence and malfeasance to the detriment of the American people". This latter charge falls equally upon the heads of both Cheney and Condoleezza Rice.

In the third and final Article, Representative Mc Kinney states that Mr. Bush willingly and knowingly violated Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution which notes the presidential obligation to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed'.