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109TH CONGRESS 

2D 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 REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 8, 2006 

Ms. MCKINNEY submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Articles of Impeachment against George Walker Bush, President of the United States of America, and other officials, 

for high crimes and misdemeanors. 

1 Resolved, That George Walker Bush, President of the 

2 United States, is impeached for high crimes and mis3 demeanors, and that the following Articles of Impeach4 ment be exhibited to the United States Senate: 

5 Articles of Impeachment exhibited by the House of 

6 Representatives of the United States of America in the 

7 name of itself and of all the people of the United States 

8 of America, against George Walker Bush, President of the 

9 United States of America, and other officials, in mainteVerDate Aug 31 2005 23:43 Dec 14, 2006 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\HR1106.IH HR1106

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1 nance and support of its impeachment against him for 

2 high crimes and misdemeanors. 

3 Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the 

4 United States of America in Congress assembled that: 

5 ARTICLE I. FAILURE TO PRESERVE, PROTECT 

6 AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION 

7 In violation of the oath of office, which reads: ‘‘I do 

8 solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute 

9 the Office of President of the United States, and will to 

10 the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the 

11 Constitution of the United States’’, George Walker Bush, 

12 in his conduct while President of the United States has 

13 demonstrated a pattern of abuse of office and of executive 

14 privilege, and disregard for the Constitution itself. 

15 This conduct includes the following: 

16 MANIPULATING INTELLIGENCE AND LYING TO JUSTIFY

17 WAR

18 In violation of the separation of powers under the 

19 Constitution and his subsequent obligation to share intel20 ligence with the Congress, George Walker Bush, while 

21 serving as President of the United States of America, in 

22 preparing the invasion of Iraq, did withhold intelligence 

23 from the Congress, by refusing to provide Congress with 

24 the full intelligence picture that he was being given, by 

25 redacting information by, for example, removing portions 


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1 of reports such as the August 6, 2001, Presidential Daily 

2 Brief, and actively manipulating the intelligence on Iraq’s 

3 alleged weapons programs by pressuring the Central Intel4 ligence Agency and other intelligence agencies to provide 

5 intelligence such that ‘‘the intelligence and facts were 

6 being fixed around the policy’’ as revealed in the ‘‘Down7 ing Street Memo’’. To this end, President George Walker 

8 Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld created the Of9 fice of Special Plans inside the Pentagon to override exist10 ing intelligence reports by providing unreliable evidence 

11 that supported the claim that Iraq’s alleged weapons of 

12 mass destruction posed an imminent threat to the United 

13 States of America. By justifying the invasion of Iraq with 

14 false and misleading statements linking Iraq to the attacks 

15 of September 11, 2001, and falsely asserting that Iraq had 

16 a nuclear weapons program for which it was importing 

17 aluminum tubes and uranium, these assertions being ei18 ther false, or based on ‘‘fixed’’ intelligence, with the intent 

19 to misinform the people and their representatives in Con20 gress in order to gain their support for invading Iraq, de21 nying both the people and their representatives in Con22 gress the right to make an informed choice, George Walk23 er Bush, President of the United States, did commit and 

24 was guilty of high crimes against the United States of 

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1 ARTICLE II. ABUSE OF OFFICE AND OF 

2 EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE 

3 In violation of his oath to ‘‘faithfully execute the of4 fice of President of the United States’’, George Walker 

5 Bush, in his conduct while President of the United States, 

6 has consistently demonstrated disregard for that oath by 

7 obstructing and hindering the work of Congressional in8 vestigative bodies and by seeking to expand the scope of 

9 the powers of his office. 

10 This conduct includes the following: 

11 FAILURE TO UPHOLD ACCOUNTABILITY

12 In abrogation of his responsibility under the oath of 

13 office to take care that the Laws be faithfully executed, 

14 by which he agreed to act in good faith and accept respon15 sibility for the overall conduct of the Executive Branch, 

16 a duty vested in his office alone under the Constitution, 

17 George Walker Bush, failed to take responsibility for, in18 vestigate or discipline those responsible for an ongoing 

19 pattern of negligence, incompetence and malfeasance to 

20 the detriment of the American people. 

21 Those whom George Walker Bush, as President of 

22 the United States of America, has failed to hold to account 

23 include but are not limited to the following top-level offi24 cials in his administration: 


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1 (a) RICHARD CHENEY.—In violation of his oath of 

2 office to support and defend the Constitution, Richard 

3 Cheney, Vice President of the United States of America, 

4 played a key role in manipulating intelligence in the inter5 est of promoting the illegal invasion of Iraq by pressuring 

6 analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency to ‘‘fix’’ their 

7 intelligence estimates of the danger posed by Iraq in rela8 tion to weapons of mass destruction, whereby Richard 

9 Cheney, Vice President of the United States, did commit 

10 and was guilty of high crimes against the United States 

11 of America. 

12 (b) CONDOLEEZZA RICE.—In violation of her Con13 stitutional duty to share and provide accurate and truthful 

14 intelligence information with the Congress, as former Na15 tional Security Advisor to the President, did play a leading 

16 role in deceiving Congress and the American public by re17 peating and propagating false statements concerning 

18 Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction program, in19 cluding false information that the purchase of aluminum 

20 tubes demonstrated that Iraq was pursuing a nuclear 

21 weapons program, false information that Iraq was seeking 

22 to purchase uranium and false information that Iraq 

23 sought help in developing a chemical and biological weap24 ons program; whereby Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of 

25 State of the United States of America, did commit and 


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1 was guilty of high misdemeanors against the United 

2 States of America. 

3 By neglecting to superintend the conduct of these of4 ficials and to hold members of the Executive Branch re5 sponsible for their negligence or violations of law, George 

6 Walker Bush, President of the United States, did commit 

7 and was guilty of high misdemeanors against the United 

8 States of America. 

9 Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George 

10 Walker Bush, Richard Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice war11 rant impeachment, trial, and removal from office. 

12 ARTICLE III. FAILURE TO ENSURE THE LAWS 

13 ARE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED 

14 In violation of his duty under Article II, Section 3 

15 of the Constitution of the United States of America to 

16 ‘‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed’’, George 

17 Walker Bush, during his tenure as President of the United 

18 States, has violated the letter and spirit of laws and rules 

19 of criminal procedure used by civilian and military courts, 

20 and has violated or ignored regulatory codes and practices 

21 that carry out the law. 

22 This conduct includes the following: 

23 ILLEGAL DOMESTIC SPYING

24 In violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance 

25 Act (FISA) [50 U.S.C. Chapter 36], George Walker Bush 


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1 did clandestinely direct the National Security Agency and 

2 various other intelligence agencies, in secret and outside 

3 the lawful scope of their mandates, for purposes unrelated 

4 to any lawful function of his offices, to conduct electronic 

5 surveillance of citizens of the United States on U.S. soil 

6 without seeking to obtain, before or after, a judicial war7 rant, thereby subverting the powers of the Congress and 

8 the Judiciary by circumventing the Foreign Intelligence 

9 Surveillance Act (FISA) courts established by Congress, 

10 whose express purpose is to check such abuses of executive 

11 power, provoking the presiding judge of the Foreign Intel12 ligence Surveillance Court to file a complaint and another 

13 judge to resign in protest, the said program having been 

14 subsequently ruled illegal (ACLU vs. NSA); he has also 

15 concealed the existence of this unlawful program of spying 

16 on American citizens from the people and all but a few 

17 of their representatives in Congress, even resorting to out18 right public deceit as on April 20, 2004, when he told an 

19 audience in Buffalo, New York: ‘‘any time you hear the 

20 United States Government talking about wiretap, it re21 quires . . . a court order. Nothing has changed, by the 

22 way. When we’re talking about chasing down terrorists, 

23 we’re talking about getting a court order before we do so’’, 

24 whereby said George Walker Bush, President of the 


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1 United States, did commit and was guilty of high crimes 

2 against the United States of America. 

3 In all of this, George Walker Bush has repeatedly and 

4 unapologetically misled the American people and has 

5 sought to undermine the system of checks and balances 

6 established by the Founding Fathers. Wherefore George 

7 Walker Bush, by such conduct, and in the interest of sav8 ing our Constitution and our democracy from the threat 

9 of arbitrary government, warrants impeachment and trial, 

10 and removal from office. 

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