IMPEACHMENT: DC EVENT, and Impeach Cheney Now!

TWO EVENTS IN DC:

WEDNESDAY JUNE 13

Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Chair of the Out of Iraq Caucus, has joined Congresswomen Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey, the two Co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, as well as Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Chief Deputy Whip and a member of the Steering and Policy Committee, and Congress Members Yvette Clarke, William Lacy Clay, Albert Wynn, and Dennis Kucinich in cosponsoring Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney (H. Res. 333).

For details, see:

http://impeachcheney.org/

On Wednesday, June 13, Waters and Kucinich plan to hold a press conference in Washington, D.C., to discuss "Renewed Efforts in the House of Representatives to Impeach Vice President Cheney." The event is planned for 9:30 a.m. at the Cannon Terrace (on the outside of the Cannon House Office Building).

THURSDAY JUNE 14

Join CODE PINK and other activists in a meeting with Senator Lieberman on Thursday at 4:30 pm in his office (706 Hart) to talk about Iran. Sen. Lieberman recently spoke in support of using military force in Iran. Leslie Angeline, who recently returned from a Global Exchange trip to Iran, started a hunger strike after she heard Lieberman’s threats of attack on Iran. Activists went to his office Tuesday with about 30 people and asked for a meeting. Wednesday they returned planning to spend the whole day there, and were told they could meet with the Senator on Thursday.

IMPEACH CHENEY NOW!

For the rule of law: 8 and growing. /// For the rule of Cheney: 427 and shrinking.

June 12, 2007: Add Rep. Maxine Waters to the list of heroes. There are now Eight Congress Members for Impeachment.

June 8, 2007: Add Rep. Barbara Lee to the list of heroes. There are now Seven Congress Members for Impeachment.

June 7, 2007: Add Rep. Lynn Woolsey to the list of heroes. There are now Six Congress Members for Impeachment.

June 5, 2007: Add Rep. Yvette Clarke to the list of heroes.

May 11, 2007: 4 Congress Members for Impeachment

Congress Members Al Wynn (202) 225-8699, William Lacy Clay (202-225-2406), Jan Schakowsky (202-225-2111) have signed onto Dennis Kucinich's (202)225-5871 H Res 333, which contains three articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney. THANK THEM!

On this page you will find Congressman Dennis Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment against Richard Cheney, along with supporting materials. The bill is H Res 333 (and not HR 333).

Here is a transcript of the press conference at which Kucinich announced the Articles. And here is a wmv Video of prominent impeachment activists with Kucinich at the U.S. Capitol on April 25, 2007 (video by Barry Student). (Again, please note and remember that H Res 333 is not H R 333, which is a completely different and unrelated bill.)

CLICK HERE TO ask your Congress Member to support impeachment proceedings against Vice President Cheney.

CLICK HERE TO ask members of the House Judiciary Committee and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to help move this forward.

CLICK HERE TO tell the media you support Rep. Dennis Kucinich's articles of impeachment.

Print out postcards to mail to Congress Members.

Listen to the song: Impeach Cheney First.

Raw Story article on Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment, April 24, 2007.

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CLICK HERE TO READ "THE PEOPLE VERSUS RICHARD CHENEY"

CLICK HERE TO READ AN INDICTMENT OF CHENEY FOR PLAME LEAK

CLICK HERE TO READ A RESOLUTION PASSED BY the Franklin Roosevelt Legacy Democratic Club

Watch Cheney, the Unauthorized Biography

1. Cheney Led the Campaign to Attack Joe Wilson, which led to the Outingof Covert CIA Operative Valerie Plame.

The trial of Scooter Libby has produced overwhelming evidence that Vice President Cheney personally led the campaign to attack Joe Wilson through the media. This "get Wilson" campaign included telling numerous reporters that Wilson was sent to Niger by his wife Valerie Plame, a CIA operative. Cheney was told by the CIA that Valerie Plame worked as a covert agent in the CIA's Nonproliferation Division, which is the critical division of the CIA responsible for stopping the spread of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.

Cheney's efforts to expose Plame actually exposed her entire covert network, at tremendous cost to the CIA's secret war against terrorism. If Plame's work had been exposed by a double-agent in our government like Aldrich Ames or Robert Hanssen, that person would face prosecution for espionage and treason. The evidence of Cheney's role is more than enough to start an impeachment investigation.

Read more:

* Cheney Urged Illegal Wiretaps

* Dick Cheney Rules

* Cheney Destroys Visitor Logs

* Fitzgerald Again Points to Cheney

* Dick Cheney and Jim Wright Saved Reagan: What Can Cheney and Nancy Pelosi Do for Bush?

* The Spoiler: How Cheney ensures diplomatic failure with Iran

* Cheney's New Front in War on Reality

* Cheney Hints at Iran Strike

* Fitzgerald: "There Is a Cloud Over the Vice President"

* Libby Testimony Raises More Questions about Cheney's Role In The CIA Leak Case

* Stink of Blood Money

* Cheney's the One

* Cheney Promises to Veto Employee Free Choice Act

* Libby Trial Sheds Light on White House

* Did Bush and Cheney Lie to Fitzgerald?

* Impeach the Two of Them

* Dick Cheney and the Dog that Didn't Bark

* Libby Told Grand Jury He Was Ordered to Leak Intelligence

* Court Hears Libby Describe Cheney as 'Upset' at Critic

* Mr. Cheney, Tear Down This Wall

* ISOO Asks Attorney General to Rule on Cheney's Role

* Libby Trial: Russert Ruins the Cover Story

* Addington Points to Cheney

* Cheney's Notes

2. There are many other reasons to impeach Dick Cheney.
Cheney has played a role in setting up illegal spying programs.

The Scooter Libby trial also exposed the lead role of Vice President Cheney's office in manipulating pre-war intelligence to defraud Congress into authorizing the invasion of Iraq. Sworn testimony revealed that Cheney's office managed the evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, all of which proved to be lies.

Cheney personally visited the CIA several times before the invasion to pressure the CIA to distort pre-war intelligence. And Cheney exerted "constant" pressure on the Republican former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee to stall an investigation into the Bush administration's use of flawed intelligence on Iraq, according to the new chairman, Senator Jay Rockefeller.

On July 14, 2003, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity laid out the case for asking Bush to request Cheney's resignation: PDF.

Tenet Blames Cheney.

Dick Cheney also created the secret Energy Task Force which operated in defiance of open-government laws. Cheney's lawyer, David Addington, advocated the "Unitary Executive Theory" which is used by the White House to defy laws duly enacted by Congress and thereby justify dictatorial action.

Dick Cheney also directed massive no-bid contracts to his company, Halliburton, and profitted from the same illegal war he defrauded the American public to launch.

3. Democrats are on politically safe ground impeaching Dick Cheney.

Even though George Bush's approval ratings are among the lowest ever recorded by a President, Democrats are terrified of impeaching him. But Democrats should have absolutely no fear of impeaching Dick Cheney, because his approval ratings are much lower than George Bush's.

4. If we impeach Cheney first, no one need fear a President Cheney.

A lot of people are understandably, if misguidedly, afraid that impeaching George W. Bush would somehow make Cheney president. Because Cheney is already running the White House, this change would not be as serious as people fear. But we can impeach Cheney FIRST and make all the fears go away.

5. This is about far more than selecting the next president.

It would benefit political opponents of the Bush-Cheney agenda for Cheney to be President, as he would shatter Truman's record for unpopularity and help boost a Democratic landslide in 2008. The Republicans know this and will never allow Cheney to be president. He'll resign before Bush is removed from office, and we'll have a new Gerald Ford (a President Pelosi is no more likely than a President Cheney). We'll have the same result if we impeach Cheney first and remove him from office. And we may get there faster this way.

Removal from office follows impeachment, which follows an investigation. A serious investigation of either Cheney or Bush will inevitably incriminate the other. In fact, the Libby trial has already shown this. Such an investigation would benefit our democracy whether or not it finally arrived at impeachment, and impeachment of both Bush and Cheney is richly merited, as is removal from office.

But removal from office is an additional and difficult step. Merely impeaching Bush leaves us with President... Bush. Whichever of these two we impeach first, it is possible we will impeach them both before removing either from office.

We must impeach Cheney and Bush to establish standards for all future presidents, not to pick one. And ultimately we must stop fearing possible results of this in order to see it through. A President Cheney afraid of being held accountable by us is far preferable to a President Bush taking orders from a Vice President Cheney who believes he's above the law.

Impeachment is not a way to pick a president, and if all you're worried about is picking a president, you have no business monkeying around with something as profoundly significant as impeachment. Impeachment is a tool for removing a criminal president from office, thus establishing limitations on power for subsequent presidents.

If we do not impeach Cheney and Bush, we will have established that it is acceptable for presidents to lie us into wars, to spy without warrants, to detain without charge, to torture, to reverse laws with signing statements, etc.

These reasons go to the survival of our democracy, a matter of far greater significance than the person who next sits in the office of the presidency – or the office of the king if that is what it is to become.

It is not politically dangerous to impeach. It is politically dangerous not to impeach when the case is clear. The Democrats calculated that by letting the Iran-Contra gang off the hook, they could win the next elections. They then lost those elections.

The Republicans tried to impeach Truman, won what they wanted from the Supreme Court, and then won the next elections. A dozen examples through history tell the same story. The only near-exception is Clinton. But that was an impeachment the public opposed. So, it ought to have had a reverse result from the other cases.

Even so, the Republicans lost fewer seats than is the norm at that point in a majority tenure, and they lost seats mostly in the Senate which acquitted, not the House which impeached.

The handful of fanatical Congress Members who imposed the Clinton impeachment on the rest of the Congress and the country won big in their next elections. Would that we had a few fanatics for serious justice in the House today.

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