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W. Bush, as members of a criminal front group, dis-
tribute known false information and propaganda in 
the hopes of forwarding legislation and other actions 
that would result in the disenfranchisement of 
Democratic voters for partisan purposes. The 
scheme, run under the auspices of an organization 
known as ‘‘The American Center for Voting Rights’’ 
(ACVR), was funded by agents of George W. Bush 
in violation of laws governing tax exempt 501(c)3 or-
ganizations and in violation of federal laws forbid-
ding the distribution of such propaganda by the 
Federal Government and agents working on its be-
half; 
(8) members of the United States Department 
of Justice, under the control and direction of the 
Administration of George W. Bush, did, for partisan 
reasons, illegally and with malice aforethought block 
career attorneys and other officials in the Depart-
ment of Justice from filing three lawsuits charging 
local and county governments with violating the vot-
ing rights of African-Americans and other minori-
ties, according to seven former senior United States 
Justice Department employees; 
(9) members of the United States Department 
of Justice, under the control and direction of the 
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Administration of George W. Bush, did illegally and 
with malice aforethought derail at least two inves-
tigations into possible voter discrimination, accord-
ing to a letter sent to the Senate Rules and Admin-
istration Committee and written by former employ-
ees of the United States Department of Justice, Vot-
ing Rights Section; and 
(10) members of the United States Election As-
sistance Commission (EAC), under the control and 
direction of the Administration of George W. Bush, 
have purposefully and willfully misled the public, in 
violation of several laws, by; 
(A) withholding from the public and then 
altering a legally mandated report on the true 
measure and threat of Voter Fraud, as commis-
sioned by the EAC and completed in June 
2006, prior to the 2006 mid-term election, but 
withheld from release prior to that election 
when its information would have been useful in 
the administration of elections across the coun-
try, because the results of the statutorily re-
quired and tax-payer funded report did not con-
form with the illegal, partisan propaganda ef-
forts and politicized agenda of the Bush Admin-
istration; 
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(B) withholding from the public a legally 
mandated report on the disenfranchising effect 
of Photo Identification laws at the polling place, 
shown to disproportionately disenfranchise vot-
ers not of George W. Bush’s political party. 
The report was commissioned by the EAC and 
completed in June 2006, prior to the 2006 mid- 
term election, but withheld from release prior to 
that election when its information would have 
been useful in the administration of elections 
across the country; and 
(C) withholding from the public a legally 
mandated report on the effectiveness of Provi-
sional Voting as commissioned by the EAC and 
completed in June 2006, prior to the 2006 mid- 
term election, but withheld from release prior to 
that election when its information would have 
been useful in the administration of elections 
across the country, and keeping that report 
unreleased for more than a year until it was re-
vealed by independent media outlets. 
For directly harming the rights and manner of suf-
frage, for suffering to make them secret and unknowable, 
for overseeing and participating in the disenfranchisement 
of legal voters, for instituting debates and doubts about 
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the true nature of elections, all against the will and con-
sent of local voters affected, and forced through threats 
of litigation by agents and agencies overseen by George 
W. Bush, the actions of Mr. Bush to do the opposite of 
securing and guaranteeing the right of the people to alter 
or abolish their government via the electoral process, being 
a violation of an inalienable right, and an immediate 
threat to Liberty. 
In all of these actions and decisions, President 
George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his 
trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subver-
sive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the 
cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the 
people of the United States. Wherefore, President George 
W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable 
offense warranting removal from office. 
ARTICLE
XXX—MISLEADING
CONGRESS
AND
THE 
AMERICAN PEOPLE IN AN ATTEMPT TO DESTROY 
MEDICARE 
In his conduct while President of the United States, 
George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to 
faithfully execute the office of President 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 under article II, section 
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3 of the Constitution ‘‘to take care that the laws be faith-
fully executed’’, has both personally and acting through 
his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice Presi-
dent, pursued policies which deliberately drained the fiscal 
resources of Medicare by forcing it to compete with sub-
sidized private insurance plans which are allowed to arbi-
trarily select or not select those they will cover; failing to 
provide reasonable levels of reimbursements to Medicare 
providers, thereby discouraging providers from partici-
pating in the program, and designing a Medicare Part D 
benefit without cost controls which allowed pharmaceutical 
companies to gouge the American taxpayers for the price 
of prescription drugs. 
The President created, manipulated, and dissemi-
nated information given to the citizens and Congress of 
the United States in support of his prescription drug plan 
for Medicare that enriched drug companies while failing 
to save beneficiaries sufficient money on their prescription 
drugs. He misled Congress and the American people into 
thinking the cost of the benefit was $400 billion. It was 
widely understood that if the cost exceeded that amount, 
the bill would not pass due to concerns about fiscal irre-
sponsibility. 
A Medicare Actuary who possessed information re-
garding the true cost of the plan, $539 billion, was in-
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structed by the Medicare Administrator to deny Congres-
sional requests for it. The Actuary was threatened with 
sanctions if the information was disclosed to Congress, 
which, unaware of the information, approved the bill. De-
spite the fact that official cost estimates far exceeded $400 
billion, President Bush offered assurances to Congress 
that the cost was $400 billion, when his office had infor-
mation to the contrary. In the House of Representatives, 
the bill passed by a single vote and the Conference Report 
passed by only 5 votes. The White House knew the actual 
cost of the drug benefit was high enough to prevent its 
passage. Yet the White House concealed the truth and im-
peded an investigation into its culpability. 
In all of these actions and decisions, President 
George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his 
trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subver-
sive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the 
cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the 
people of the United States. Wherefore, President George 
W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable 
offense warranting removal from office. 
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ARTICLE XXXI—KATRINA: FAILURE TO PLAN FOR THE 
PREDICTED DISASTER
OF HURRICANE KATRINA, 
FAILURE TO RESPOND TO A CIVIL EMERGENCY 
In his conduct while President of the United States, 
George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to 
faithfully execute the office of President 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 under article II, section 
3 of the Constitution ‘‘to take care that the laws be faith-
fully executed’’, has both personally and acting through 
his agents and subordinates, failed to take sufficient ac-
tion to protect life and property prior to and in the face 
of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, given decades of foreknowl-
edge of the dangers of storms to New Orleans and specific 
forewarning in the days prior to the storm. The President 
failed to prepare for predictable and predicted disasters, 
failed to respond to an immediate need of which he was 
informed, and has subsequently failed to rebuild the sec-
tion of our nation that was destroyed. 
Hurricane Katrina killed at least 1,282 people, with 
2 million more displaced. 302,000 housing units were de-
stroyed or damaged by the hurricane, 71 percent of these 
were low-income units. More than 500 sewage plants were 
destroyed, more than 170 point-source leakages of gaso-
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line, oil, or natural gas, more than 2,000 gas stations sub-
merged, several chemical plants, 8 oil refineries, and a 
superfund site was submerged. 8 million gallons of oil were 
spilled. Toxic materials seeped into floodwaters and spread 
through much of the city and surrounding areas. 
The predictable increased strength of hurricanes such 
as Katrina has been identified by scientists for years, and 
yet the Bush Administration has denied this science and 
restricted such information from official reports, publica-
tions, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency’s 
website. Donald Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Science, wrote 
in 2006 that ‘‘hurricane intensity has increased with oce-
anic surface temperatures over the past 30 years. The 
physics of hurricane intensity growth . . . has clarified 
and explained the thermodynamic basis for these observa-
tions. [Kerry] Emanuel has tested this relationship and 
presented convincing evidence.’’. 
FEMA’s 2001 list of the top three most likely and 
most devastating disasters were a San Francisco earth-
quake, a terrorist attack on New York, and a Category 
4 hurricane hitting New Orleans, with New Orleans being 
the number one item on that list. FEMA conducted a five- 
day hurricane simulation exercise in 2004, ‘‘Hurricane 
Pam’’, mimicking a Katrina-like event. This exercise com-
bined the National Weather Service, the U.S. Army Corps 
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of Engineers, the LSU Hurricane Center and other state 
and federal agencies, resulting in the development of emer-
gency response plans. The exercise demonstrated, among 
other things, that thousands of mainly indigent New Orle-
ans residents would be unable to evacuate on their own. 
They would need substantial government assistance. 
These plans, however, were not implemented in part due 
to the President’s slashing of funds for protection. In the 
year before Hurricane Katrina hit, the President contin-
ued to cut budgets and deny grants to the Gulf Coast. 
In June of 2004, the Army Corps of Engineers levee budg-
et for New Orleans was cut, and it was cut again in June 
of 2005, this time by $71.2 million or a whopping 44 per-
cent of the budget. As a result, ACE was forced to sus-
pend any repair work on the levees. In 2004 FEMA denied 
a Louisiana disaster mitigation grant request. 
The President was given multiple warnings that Hur-
ricane Katrina had a high likelihood of causing serious 
damage to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. At 10 a.m. 
on Sunday, August 28, 2005, the day before the storm 
hit, the National Weather Service published an alert titled 
‘‘DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED’’. Printed in 
all capital letters, the alert stated that ‘‘MOST OF THE 
AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS 
. . . PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF 
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WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF 
AND WALL FAILURE. . . . POWER OUTAGES 
WILL LAST FOR WEEKS. . . . WATER SHORT-
AGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCRED-
IBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.’’. 
The Homeland Security Department also briefed the 
President on the scenario, warning of levee breaches and 
severe flooding. According to the New York Times, ‘‘a 
Homeland Security Department report submitted to the 
White House at 1:47 a.m. on August 29, hours before the 
storm hit, said, ‘Any storm rated Category 4 or greater 
will likely lead to severe flooding and/or levee breaching.’ ’’ 
These warnings clearly contradict the statements made by 
President Bush immediately after the storm that such 
devastation could not have been predicted. On September 
1, 2005, the President said, ‘‘I don’t think anyone antici-
pated the breach of the levees.’’. 
The President’s response to Katrina via FEMA and 
DHS was criminally delayed, indifferent, and inept. The 
only FEMA employee posted in New Orleans in the imme-
diate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Marty Bahamonde, 
emailed head of FEMA Michael Brown from his Black-
berry device on August 31, 2005, regarding the conditions. 
The email was urgent and detailed and indicated that 
‘‘The situation is past critical. . . . Estimates are many 
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will die within hours.’’. Brown’s reply was emblematic of 
the administration’s entire response to the catastrophe: 
‘‘Thanks for the update. Anything specific I need to do 
or tweak?’’. The Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael 
Chertoff, did not declare an emergency, did not mobilize 
the Federal resources, and seemed to not even know what 
was happening on the ground until reporters told him. 
On Friday, August 26, 2005, Governor Kathleen 
Blanco declared a State of Emergency in Louisiana and 
Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi followed suit the 
next day. Also on that Saturday, Governor Blanco asked 
the President to declare a Federal State of Emergency, 
and on August 28, 2005, the Sunday before the storm 
hit, Mayor Nagin declared a State of Emergency in New 
Orleans. This shows that the local authorities, responding 
to federal warnings, knew how bad the destruction was 
going to be and anticipated being overwhelmed. Failure 
to act under these circumstances demonstrates gross neg-
ligence. 
In all of these actions and decisions, President 
George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his 
trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subver-
sive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the 
cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the 
people of the United States. Wherefore, President George 
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W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable 
offense warranting removal from office. 
ARTICLE
XXXII—MISLEADING
CONGRESS
AND
THE 
AMERICAN
PEOPLE, 
SYSTEMATICALLY
UNDER-
MINING EFFORTS TO ADDRESS GLOBAL CLIMATE 
CHANGE 
In his conduct while President of the United States, 
George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to 
faithfully execute the office of President 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 under article II, section 
3 of the Constitution ‘‘to take care that the laws be faith-
fully executed’’, has both personally and acting through 
his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice Presi-
dent, ignored the peril to life and property posed by global 
climate change, manipulated scientific information and 
mishandled protective policy, constituting nonfeasance and 
malfeasance in office, abuse of power, dereliction of duty, 
and deception of Congress and the American people. 
President Bush knew the expected effects of climate 
change and the role of human activities in driving climate 
change. This knowledge preceded his first Presidential 
term. 
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(1) During his 2000 Presidential campaign, he 
promised to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. 
(2) In 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on 
Climate Change, a global body of hundreds of the 
world’s foremost experts on climate change, con-
cluded that ‘‘most of observed warming over last 50 
years (is) likely due to increases in greenhouse gas 
concentrations due to human activities.’’ The Third 
Assessment Report projected several effects of cli-
mate change such as continued ‘‘widespread retreat’’ 
of glaciers, an ‘‘increase threats to human health, 
particularly in lower income populations, predomi-
nantly within tropical/subtropical countries’’, and 
‘‘water shortages’’. 
(3) The grave danger to national security posed 
by global climate change was recognized by the Pen-
tagon’s 
Defense 
Advanced 
Planning 
Research 
Projects Agency in October of 2003. An agency-com-
missioned report ‘‘explores how such an abrupt cli-
mate change scenario could potentially de-stabilize 
the geo-political environment, leading to skirmishes, 
battles, and even war due to resource constraints 
such as: 1) Food shortages due to decreases in net 
global agricultural production, 2) Decreased avail-
ability and quality of fresh water in key regions due 
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to shifted precipitation patters, causing more fre-
quent floods and droughts, 3) Disrupted access to 
energy supplies due to extensive sea ice and stormi-
ness.’’. 
(4) A December 2004 paper in Science reviewed 
928 studies published in peer reviewed journals to 
determine the number providing evidence against the 
existence of a link between anthropogenic emissions 
of carbon dioxide and climate change. ‘‘Remarkably, 
none of the papers disagreed with the consensus po-
sition.’’. 
(5) The November 2007 Inter-Governmental 
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assess-
ment Report showed that global anthropogenic emis-
sions of greenhouse gasses have increased 70 percent 
between 1970 and 2004, and anthropogenic emis-
sions are very likely the cause of global climate 
change. The report concluded that global climate 
change could cause the extinction of 20 to 30 per-
cent of species in unique ecosystems such as the 
polar areas and biodiversity hotspots, increase ex-
treme weather events especially in the developing 
world, and have adverse effects on food production 
and fresh water availability. 
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The President has done little to address this most 
serious of problems, thus constituting an abuse of power 
and criminal neglect. He has also actively endeavored to 
undermine efforts by the Federal Government, States, and 
other nations to take action on their own. 
(1) In March 2001, President Bush announced 
the U.S. would not be pursuing ratification of the 
Kyoto Protocol, an international effort to reduce 
greenhouse gasses. The United States is the only in-
dustrialized nation that has failed to ratify the ac-
cord. 
(2) In March of 2008, Representative Henry 
Waxman wrote to EPA Administrator Stephen 
Johnson: ‘‘In August 2003, the Bush Administration 
denied a petition to regulate CO2 emissions from 
motor vehicles by deciding that CO2 was not a pol-
lutant under the Clean Air Act. In April 2007, the 
U.S. Supreme Court overruled that determination in 
Massachusetts v. EPA. The Supreme Court wrote 
that ‘If EPA makes a finding of endangerment, the 
Clean Air Act requires the agency to regulate emis-
sions of the deleterious pollutant from new motor ve-
hicles.’. The EPA then conducted an extensive inves-
tigation involving 60–70 staff who concluded that 
‘CO2 emissions endanger both human health and 
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welfare.’. These findings were submitted to the 
White House, after which work on the findings and 
the required regulations was halted.’’. 
(3) A Memo to Members of the Committee on 
Oversight and Government Reform on May 19, 
2008, stated, ‘‘The record before the Committee 
shows: (1) the career staff at EPA unanimously sup-
ported granting California’s petition (to be allowed 
to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and 
trucks, consistent with California state law); (2) Ste-
phen Johnson, the Administrator of EPA, also sup-
ported granting California’s petition at least in part; 
and (3) Administrator Johnson reversed his position 
after communications with officials in the White 
House.’’. 
The President has suppressed the release of scientific 
information related to global climate change, an action 
which undermines Congress’s ability to legislate and pro-
vide oversight, and which has thwarted efforts to prevent 
global climate change despite the serious threat that it 
poses. 
(1) In February, 2001, ExxonMobil wrote a 
memo to the White House outlining ways to influ-
ence the outcome of the Third Assessment report by 
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 
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The memo opposed the reelection of Dr. Robert 
Watson as the IPCC Chair. The White House then 
supported an opposition candidate, who was subse-
quently elected to replace Dr. Watson. 
(2) The New York Times on January 29, 2006, 
reported that James Hansen, NASA’s senior climate 
scientist was warned of ‘‘dire consequences’’ if he 
continued to speak out about global climate change 
and the need for reducing emissions of associated 
gasses. The Times also reported that: ‘‘At climate 
laboratories of the National Oceanic and Atmos-
pheric Administration, for example, many scientists 
who routinely took calls from reporters five years 
ago can now do so only if the interview is approved 
by administration officials in Washington, and then 
only if a public affairs officer is present or on the 
phone.’’. 
(3) In December of 2007, the House Committee 
on Oversight and Government Reform issued a re-
port based on 16 months of investigation and 27,000 
pages of documentation. According to the summary: 
‘‘The evidence before the Committee leads to one in-
escapable conclusion: the Bush Administration has 
engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate 
change science and mislead policy makers and the 
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public about the dangers of global warming.’’ The 
report described how the White House appointed 
former petroleum industry lobbyist Phil Cooney as 
head of the Council on Environmental Quality. The 
report states ‘‘There was a systematic White House 
effort to minimize the significance of climate change 
by editing climate change reports. CEQ Chief of 
Staff Phil Cooney and other CEQ officials made at 
least 294 edits to the Administration’s Strategic 
Plan of the Climate Change Science Program to ex-
aggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to 
de-emphasize or diminish the importance of the 
human role in global warming.’’. 
(4) On April 23, 2008, Representative Henry 
Waxman wrote a letter to EPA Administrator Ste-
phen L. Johnson. In it he reported: ‘‘Almost 1,600 
EPA scientists completed the Union of Concerned 
Scientists survey questionnaire. Over 22 percent of 
these scientists reported that ‘selective or incomplete 
use of data to justify a specific regulatory outcome’ 
occurred ‘frequently’ or ‘occasionally’ at EPA. Nine-
ty-four EPA scientists reported being frequently or 
occasionally directed to inappropriately exclude or 
alter technical information from an EPA scientific 
document. Nearly 200 EPA scientists said that they 
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have frequently or occasionally been in situations in 
which scientists have actively objected to, resigned 
from or removed themselves from a project because 
of pressure to change scientific findings.’’. 
In all of these actions and decisions, President 
George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his 
trust as President and subversive of constitutional govern-
ment, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and 
to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. 
Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, 
is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal 
from office. 
ARTICLE XXXIII—REPEATEDLY IGNORED AND FAILED 
TO
RESPOND
TO
HIGH
LEVEL
INTELLIGENCE 
WARNINGS OF PLANNED TERRORIST ATTACKS IN 
THE U.S., PRIOR TO 9/11 
In his conduct while President of the United States, 
George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to 
faithfully execute the office of President 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 under article II, section 
3 of the Constitution ‘‘to take care that the laws be faith-
fully executed’’, has both personally and acting through 
his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice Presi-
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dent, failed in his Constitutional duties to take proper 
steps to protect the nation prior to September 11, 2001. 
The White House’s top counter-terrorism adviser, 
Richard A. Clarke, has testified that from the beginning 
of George W. Bush’s presidency until September 11, 2001, 
Clarke attempted unsuccessfully to persuade President 
Bush to take steps to protect the nation against terrorism. 
Clarke sent a memorandum to then-National Security Ad-
visor Condoleezza Rice on January 24, 2001, ‘‘urgently’’ 
but unsuccessfully requesting ‘‘a Cabinet-level meeting to 
deal with the impending al Qaeda attack.’’. 
In April 2001, Clarke was finally granted a meeting, 
but only with second-in-command department representa-
tives, including Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul 
Wolfowitz, who made light of Clarke’s concerns. 
Clarke confirms that in June, July, and August 
2001, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) warned the 
president in daily briefings of unprecedented indications 
that a major al Qaeda attack was going to happen against 
the United States somewhere in the world in the weeks 
and months ahead. Yet, Clarke was still unable to convene 
a cabinet-level meeting to address the issue. 
Condoleezza Rice has testified that George Tenet met 
with the president 40 times to warn him that a major al 
Qaeda attack was going to take place, and that in response 
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the president did not convene any meetings of top officials. 
At such meetings, the FBI could have shared information 
on possible terrorists enrolled at flight schools. Among the 
many preventive steps that could have been taken, the 
Federal Aviation Administration, airlines, and airports 
might have been put on full alert. 
According to Condoleezza Rice, the first and only 
cabinet-level meeting prior to 9/11 to discuss the threat 
of terrorist attacks took place on September 4, 2001, one 
week before the attacks in New York and Washington. 
On August 6, 2001, President Bush was presented 
a President’s Daily Brief (PDB) article titled ‘‘Bin Laden 
Determined to Strike in U.S.’’. The lead sentence of that 
PDB article indicated that Bin Laden and his followers 
wanted to ‘‘follow the example of World Trade Center 
bomber Ramzi Yousef and ‘bring the fighting to Amer-
ica’ ’’. The article warned: ‘‘Al-Qa’ida members—including 
some who are U.S. citizens—have resided in or traveled 
to the U.S. for years, and the group apparently maintains 
a support structure that could aid attacks.’’. 
The article cited a ‘‘more sensational threat reporting 
that Bin Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft’’, but in-
dicated that the CIA had not been able to corroborate such 
reporting. The PDB item included information from the 
FBI indicating ‘‘patterns of suspicious activity in this 
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country consistent with preparations for hijackings or 
other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of 
Federal buildings in New York’’. The article also noted 
that the CIA and FBI were investigating ‘‘a call to our 
embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group of Bin 
Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with 
explosives’’. 
The president spent the rest of August 6, and almost 
all the rest of August 2001 on vacation. There is no evi-
dence that he called any meetings of his advisers to discuss 
this alarming report. When the title and substance of this 
PDB article were later reported in the press, then-Na-
tional Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice began a sus-
tained campaign to play down its significance, until the 
actual text was eventually released by the White House. 
New York Times writer Douglas Jehl, put it this way: 
‘‘In a single 17-sentence document, the intelligence brief-
ing delivered to President Bush in August 2001 spells out 
the who, hints at the what and points towards the where 
of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that 
followed 36 days later.’’. 
Eleanor Hill, Executive Director of the joint congres-
sional committee investigating the performance of the 
U.S. intelligence community before September 11, 2001, 
reported in mid-September 2002 that intelligence reports 
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a year earlier ‘‘reiterated a consistent and constant theme: 
Osama bin Laden’s intent to launch terrorist attacks in-
side the United States’’. 
That joint inquiry revealed that just two months be-
fore September 11, an intelligence briefing for ‘‘senior 
government officials’’ predicted a terrorist attack with 
these words: ‘‘The attack will be spectacular and designed 
to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or inter-
ests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will 
occur with little or no warning.’’. 
Given the White House’s insistence on secrecy with 
regard to what intelligence was given to President Bush, 
the joint-inquiry report does not divulge whether he took 
part in that briefing. Even if he did not, it strains credu-
lity to suppose that those ‘‘senior government officials’’ 
would have kept its alarming substance from the presi-
dent. 
Again, there is no evidence that the president held 
any meetings or took any action to deal with the threats 
of such attacks. 
In all of these actions and decisions, President 
George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his 
trust as President, and subversive of constitutional gov-
ernment, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice 
and to the manifest injury of the people of the United 
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States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such 
conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting 
removal from office. 
ARTICLE XXXIV—OBSTRUCTION OF INVESTIGATION 
INTO THE ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 
In his conduct while President of the United States, 
George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to 
faithfully execute the office of President 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 under article II, section 
3 of the Constitution ‘‘to take care that the laws be faith-
fully executed’’, has both personally and acting through 
his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice Presi-
dent, obstructed investigations into the attacks on the 
World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 
2001. 
Following September 11, 2001, President Bush and 
Vice President Cheney took strong steps to thwart any 
and all proposals that the circumstances of the attack be 
addressed. Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell was 
forced to renege on his public promise on September 23 
that a ‘‘White Paper’’ would be issued to explain the cir-
cumstances. Less than two weeks after that promise, Pow-
ell apologized for his ‘‘unfortunate choice of words’’, and 
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