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explained that Americans would have to rely on ‘‘informa-
tion coming out in the press and in other ways’’. 
On September 26, 2001, President Bush drove to 
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters in Lang-
ley, Virginia, stood with Director of Central Intelligence 
George Tenet and said: ‘‘My report to the nation is, we’ve 
got the best intelligence we can possibly have thanks to 
the men and women of the C.I.A.’’ George Tenet subse-
quently and falsely claimed not to have visited the presi-
dent personally between the start of Bush’s long Crawford 
vacation and September 11, 2001. 
Testifying before the 9/11 Commission on April 14, 
2004, Tenet answered a question from Commission mem-
ber Timothy Roemer by referring to the president’s vaca-
tion (July 29–August 30) in Crawford and insisting that 
he did not see the president at all in August 2001. ‘‘You 
never talked with him?’’ Roemer asked. ‘‘No’’, Tenet re-
plied, explaining that for much of August he too was ‘‘on 
leave’’. An Agency spokesman called reporters that same 
evening to say Tenet had misspoken, and that Tenet had 
briefed Bush on August 17 and 31. The spokesman ex-
plained that the second briefing took place after the presi-
dent had returned to Washington, and played down the 
first one, in Crawford, as uneventful. 
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In his book, At the Center of the Storm (2007), 
Tenet refers to what is almost certainly his August 17 visit 
to Crawford as a follow-up to the ‘‘Bin Laden Determined 
to Strike in the U.S.’’ article in the CIA-prepared Presi-
dent’s Daily Brief of August 6. That briefing was immor-
talized in a Time Magazine photo capturing Harriet Myers 
holding the PDB open for the president, as two CIA offi-
cers sit by. It is the same briefing to which the president 
reportedly reacted by telling the CIA briefer, ‘‘All right, 
you’ve covered your ass now.’’. (Ron Suskind, The One- 
Percent Doctrine, p. 2, 2006). In At the Center of the 
Storm, Tenet writes: ‘‘A few weeks after the August 6 
PDB was delivered, I followed it to Crawford to make sure 
that the president stayed current on events.’’. 
A White House press release suggests Tenet was also 
there a week later, on August 24. According to the August 
25, 2001, release, President Bush, addressing a group of 
visitors to Crawford on August 25, told them: ‘‘George 
Tenet and I, yesterday, we piled in the new nominees for 
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice Chairman and 
their wives and went right up the canyon.’’. 
In early February 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney 
warned then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle that 
if Congress went ahead with an investigation, administra-
tion officials might not show up to testify. As pressure 
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grew for an investigation, the president and vice president 
agreed to the establishment of a congressional joint com-
mittee to conduct a ‘‘Joint Inquiry’’. Eleanor Hill, Execu-
tive Director of the Inquiry, opened the Joint Inquiry’s 
final public hearing in mid-September 2002 with the fol-
lowing disclaimer: ‘‘I need to report that, according to the 
White House and the Director of Central Intelligence, the 
president’s knowledge of intelligence information relevant 
to this inquiry remains classified, even when the substance 
of the intelligence information has been declassified.’’. 
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, also 
known as the 9/11 Commission, was created on November 
27, 2002, following the passage of congressional legisla-
tion signed into law by President Bush. The President was 
asked to testify before the Commission. He refused to tes-
tify except for one hour in private with only two Commis-
sion members, with no oath administered, with no record-
ing or note taking, and with the Vice President at his side. 
Commission Co-Chair Lee Hamilton has written that he 
believes the commission was set up to fail, was under-
funded, was rushed, and did not receive proper coopera-
tion and access to information. 
A December 2007 review of classified documents by 
former members of the Commission found that the com-
mission had made repeated and detailed requests to the 
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CIA in 2003 and 2004 for documents and other informa-
tion about the interrogation of operatives of l Qaeda, and 
had been told falsely by a top CIA official that the agency 
had ‘‘produced or made available for review’’ everything 
that had been requested. 
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 
States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such 
conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting 
removal from office. 
ARTICLE XXXV—ENDANGERING THE HEALTH OF 9/11 
FIRST RESPONDERS 
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, recklessly endangered the health of first responders, 
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