Impeachment

By David Swanson

Thirteen state Democratic parties have now passed resolutions demanding impeachment, nine of them since Nancy Pelosi ordered the Democratic Party away from impeachment.

In May 2004, the Nevada Democratic Party led the way, passing a resolution demanding Bush’s impeachment. On June 12, 2005, the Wisconsin Democratic Party passed a resolution demanding the impeachment of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld. On January 28, 2006, the North Carolina Democratic Party Executive Committee read more

LISTEN

By David Swanson

Another day, another impeachable offense. If this one were on a television show we’d all flip it off in disgust as too unlikely. The President phones up a hospital to demand that the ailing Attorney General (who has turned over his duties and is disoriented) admit the President’s legal counsel and chief of staff so that they can ask him to sign off on an illegal spying program. The AG refuses to sign off. The acting AG, who is fully conscious but considers the program read more

By David Swanson

Nailing Dick Cheney for tax evasion would be like nailing Al Capone for tax evasion. But the last time a U.S. president faced a strong movement for impeachment for actual impeachable offenses, one of the major road blocks was fear that an unpopular vice president would take his place, and this road block was removed when Spiro Agnew resigned in the face of criminal charges of cheating on his taxes.

As every American is aware, including even those who have never heard of impeachment, read more

By David Swanson

On Thursday, May 10, 2007, Lawrence Wilkerson, speaking on National Public Radio, proposed impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Here’s the audio.

Wilkerson is a Retired Army Colonel, the former Chief of Staff at the State Department from 2002 to 2005 under then Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Vietnam War veteran, the former Acting Director of the Marine Corps War College at Quantico, and currently a teacher of national security at William read more

By David Swanson

Congresswoman and House Judiciary Committee Member Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) has spoken up in support of impeaching President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Waters said she advocates impeaching Cheney first, which is the same approach taken by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio) in his bill, H. Res. 333. Waters has not yet cosponsored that bill.

Audio of Rep. Waters’ statement:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/watersimpeach.mp3

Rush Transcript:

“I was a read more

By Matthew Cardinale, News Editor, Atlanta Progressive News (April 29, 2007)
http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com

(APN) ATLANTA – H Res 333, the bill introducing Articles of Impeachment against Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, now has two co-sponsors, for a total of 3 current total supporters, including sponsor US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

The two cosponsors are US Reps. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO) and Janice Schakowsky (D-IL). APN currently has read more

Maine’s “Impeachment Day” event was the Maine Impeachment Town Meeting held April 28, 2007, at the First Parish Church in Portland, Maine, organized by http://www.maineimpeach.org

Former Mayor of Portland Jill Duson introduced Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org David Swanson: best viewed Here, but also available as mp4 video by Eric Herter or Quicktime Video.

John Branson of Maine Lawyers for Democracy: Quicktime Video.

John Kaminski of Maine Lawyers for Democracy: Quicktime read more

By David Swanson

Speech delivered in Portland, Maine, at rally organized by http://www.maineimpeach.org onApril 28th national day of impeachment events organized by http://www.a28.org

I want to thank Maine Impeach dot org for putting this event together. This is a wonderful crowd! The paper on grounds for impeachment drafted by Maine Lawyers for Democracy is incredibly well done: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/me

I spoke earlier today at a rally in Boston, Massachusetts, where one of the other read more

Congressman Dennis Kucinich plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Vice President Cheney. It’s time now for us to follow through by asking the rest of Congress to get on board with the American public, and by letting the media know where we stand.

http://www.impeachcheney.org

Ask your Congress Member to support impeachment proceedings against Vice President Cheney:
http://tinyurl.com/yttnxq

Ask members of the House Judiciary Committee and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to lead, follow, read more

United for Peace and Justice
http://www.unitedforpeace.org

UFPJ Statement on Impeachment

George Bush, Dick Cheney and other top administration officials have committed impeachable offenses.

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By David Swanson

In 10 U.S. states, either this year or last year or both, the state legislature has introduced and considered, though not yet passed, a bill to petition the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach Bush and Cheney. The question, of course, is what in the heck is wrong with the other 40 states? We can’t find a single state legislator with the decency to uphold the U.S. Constitution and at least introduce a resolution to impeach? Where are the states that created the Constitution? read more

By David Swanson

Imagine a president who violates numerous laws that predate his presidency. Imagine that Congress redundantly and repeatedly re-bans that criminal behavior. Imagine a president who repeatedly throws out the new bans with signing statements and continues to violate the same laws. This is the heart of the matter of the Bush “signing statements.” It is an unprecedented use of signing statements. And it is something that too many of us are unaware of and too many others read more

Answer Him

On March 9, a church basement in Washington, D.C., filled up with people eager to discuss and debate impeachment. Four speakers began the discussion with brief remarks: 27 year veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern, founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity; David Swanson, co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org and former staffer for Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign; Dave Lindorff, author of “The Case for Impeachment”; and John Judge, former staffer of Rep. Cynthia read more

Videos by Barry Student

Gore Vidal and John Nichols.
Cindy Sheehan.
Daniel Ellsberg.
Michael Ratner.
Sunsara Taylor.
Questions/Answers.

Videos shot March 9, 2007, in Washington DC by William Hughes

John Judge is a former staffer for former Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA):

Dave Lindorff is a journalist and the author of “The Case for Impeachment”:

David Swanson is a journalist, co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, and also a former staffer for Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign:

Ray McGovern is a former read more

By David Swanson

There are those who believe that Bush and Cheney have committed impeachable offenses but that we should not try to impeach them. In this discussion, Bob McAdams lays out the arguments.

Then there are those, like myself, who think we need to put everything we’ve got into impeachment now. Here’s my case.

Meanwhile, there are a lot of people who see both sides and want to hash it out and mull it over, as in this read more