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enrichment and finds unpersuasive the argu-
ments advanced by others to make the case that 
they are intended for that purpose.’’. 
The Vice President subverted the national security 
interests of the United States by setting the stage for the 
loss of more than 3,800 United States service members; 
the loss of more than 1 million innocent Iraqi citizens 
since the United States invasion; the loss of approximately 
$500 billion in war costs which has increased our Federal 
debt; the loss of military readiness within the United 
States Armed Services due to overextension, lack of train-
ing and lack of equipment; the loss of United States credi-
bility in world affairs; and the decades of likely blowback 
created by the invasion of Iraq. 
In all of this, Vice President Richard B. Cheney has 
acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Vice President, 
and subversive of constitutional government, to the preju-
dice of the cause of law and justice and the manifest injury 
of the people of the United States. Wherefore, Vice Presi-
dent Richard B. Cheney, by such conduct, is guilty of an 
impeachable offense warranting removal from office. 
Article II 
In his conduct while Vice President of the United 
States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitu-
tional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice Presi-
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dent 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 
to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, purposely 
manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens 
and Congress of the United States about an alleged rela-
tionship between Iraq and al Qaeda in order to justify the 
use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation 
of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security 
interests, to wit: 
(1) Despite all evidence to the contrary, the 
Vice President actively and systematically sought to 
deceive the citizens and the Congress of the United 
States about an alleged relationship between Iraq 
and al Qaeda: 
(A) ‘‘His regime has had high-level con-
tacts with Al Qaeda going back a decade and 
has provided training to Al Qaeda terrorists.’’ 
December 2, 2002, Speech of Vice President 
Cheney at the Air National Guard Senior Lead-
ership Conference. 
(B) ‘‘His regime aids and protects terror-
ists, including members of Al Qaeda. He could 
decide secretly to provide weapons of mass de-
struction to terrorists for use against us.’’ Jan-
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uary 30, 2003, Speech of Vice President Che-
ney to 30th Political Action Conference in Ar-
lington, Virginia. 
(C) ‘‘We know he’s out trying once again 
to produce nuclear weapons and we know that 
he has a long-standing relationship with various 
terrorist groups, including the Al Qaeda organi-
zation.’’ March 16, 2003, NBC Meet the Press 
interview with Vice President Cheney. 
(D) ‘‘We learned more and more that there 
was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda 
that stretched back through most of the decade 
of the ’90s, that it involved training, for exam-
ple, 
on 
biological 
weapons 
and 
chemical 
weapons . . .’’ September 14, 2003, NBC 
Meet the Press interview with Vice President 
Cheney. 
(E) ‘‘Al Qaeda had a base of operation 
there up in Northeastern Iraq where they ran 
a large poisons factory for attacks against Eu-
ropeans and U.S. forces.’’ October 3, 2003, 
Speech of Vice President Cheney at Bush-Che-
ney ’04 Fundraiser in Iowa. 
(F) ‘‘He also had an established relation-
ship with Al Qaeda providing training to Al 
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Qaeda members in areas of poisons, gases, and 
conventional bombs.’’ October 10, 2003, Speech 
of Vice President Cheney to the Heritage Foun-
dation. 
(G) ‘‘Al Qaeda and the Iraqi intelligence 
services have worked together on a number of 
occasions.’’ January 9, 2004, Rocky Mountain 
News interview with Vice President Cheney. 
(H) ‘‘I think there’s overwhelming evidence 
that there was a connection between Al Qaeda 
and the Iraqi Government.’’ January 22, 2004, 
NPR: Morning Edition interview with Vice 
President Cheney. 
(I) ‘‘First of all, on the question of—of 
whether or not there was any kind of relation-
ship, there clearly was a relationship. It’s been 
testified to; the evidence is overwhelming.’’ 
June 17, 2004, CNBC: Capital Report inter-
view with Vice President Cheney. 
(2) Preceding the March 2003 invasion of Iraq 
the Vice President was fully informed that no cred-
ible evidence existed of a working relationship be-
tween Iraq and al Qaeda, a fact articulated in sev-
eral official documents, including: 
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(A) A classified Presidential Daily Briefing 
ten days after the September 11, 2001, attacks 
indicating that the United States intelligence 
community had no evidence linking Saddam 
Hussein to the September 11th attacks and 
that there was ‘‘scant credible evidence that 
Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with 
Al Qaeda’’. 
(B) Defense Intelligence Terrorism Sum-
mary No. 044–02, issued in February 2002 by 
the United States Defense Intelligence Agency, 
which challenged the credibility of information 
gleaned from captured al Qaeda leader al-Libi. 
The DIA report also cast significant doubt on 
the possibility of a Saddam Hussein-al-Qaeda 
conspiracy: ‘‘Saddam’s regime is intensely sec-
ular and is wary of Islamic revolutionary move-
ments. Moreover, Baghdad is unlikely to pro-
vide assistance to a group it cannot control.’’. 
(C) A January 2003 British intelligence 
classified report on Iraq that concluded that 
‘‘there are no current links between the Iraqi 
regime and the al-Qaeda network’’. 
The Vice President subverted the national security 
interests of the United States by setting the stage for the 
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