The case for impeachment of President George W. Bush: Articles & Commentary

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General

• "Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment," Washington Post, 1974.
• "Impeachment," Crisis Papers.org, accessed May 6, 2005.
• "Impeach George W. Bush. A Centrist Against Bush," accessed May 6, 2005.
• Commentary: "Bush is IMPEACHABLE because He's UNDER OATH," Take Back the Media!, accessed May 6, 2005.
• "Notes on the Provisions on Impeachment in the U.S. Constitution," VotetoImpeach.org, accessed May 7, 2005.
• "What Are Impeachable Offenses?," ImpeachBush.tv, accessed May 7, 2005.

2002

• Kéllia Ramares, "Preemptive impeachment. Law professor stands ready to draft articles for any member of the House," From the Wilderness, January 4, 2002.
• Richard Falk, "The Rush to War," The Nation, August 1, 2002.
• "Impeach Bush!" A Voice for Freedom, [dating from] August 7, 2002: Why? Election fraud, influence peddling, violation of oath of office, AWOL, etc.
• William Schneider, "Marketing Iraq: Why now?," CNN, September 12, 2002.
• Dan Plesch, "Weapons of mass distraction. President Bush wouldn't want to talk about the many issues which the Iraq crisis is obscuring," The Observer/UK, September 29, 2002.
• "George Bush Plan High Crimes and Misdemeanors," Resistance, September 30, 2002.
• "Like Father Like Son: George H.W. Bush’s 1991 Game-Plan to Destroy Iraq," The Edge, October 3, 2002.

2003

• The case for impeachment of President George W. Bush: External Links 2003

2004

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2005

• "Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark Calls For Bush Impeachment," Democracy Now!, January 21, 2005.
• Editorial: "Bush's Bold Vision is Rhetoric: Bush's Utter Failure is Stunning Incompetence," BuzzFlash, January 22, 2005.
• Tariq Ali, "Out With the Old, In With the New: The Iraqi Elections Were Designed Not to Preserve the Unity of Iraq but to Re-Establish the Unity of the West," Guardian/UK, February 7, 2005.
• Jay O'Connell and Mike Hersh, "Grounds for Impeachment," mikehersh.com, February 2, 2005.
• Don DeBar, "Nader: Support Rep. Conyers Call for Bush Impeachment Inquiry," Portland Indymedia, March 1, 2005.
• Alan Elsner, "Suit Alleges Rumsfeld Approved Torture," Reuters, March 1, 2005.
• "CIA sends terror suspects for interrogation abroad," ChinaView.cn/New York Times, March 7, 2005.
• Josh White, "Army, CIA Agreed on 'Ghost' Prisoners," Washington Post, March 11, 2005.
• Greg Palast, "Secret U.S. Plans For Iraq's Oil," BBC, March 17, 2005.
• Sarah Ferguson, "Peace March Veers Way Left. Black-led protest challenges capitalism, imperialism, and New York's very rich mayor," Village Voice, March 20, 2005.
• Josh White, "Army Documents Shed Light on CIA 'Ghosting'," Washington Post, March 24, 2005.
• "Veterans Group Calls on Congress to Impeach George W. Bush and Richard Cheney," Baltimore Chronicle, March 30, 2005. See Veterans For Peace March 29, 2005, Letter to Congress.
• Greg Palast, "Impeachment Time: 'Facts Were Fixed'," BuzzFlash, May 4, 2005; also posted at ZMag.org.
• Raymond McGovern, "Proof Bush Fixed The Facts," Tom Paine.Common Sense, May 4, 2005.
• "Eighty-eight members of Congress call on Bush for answers on secret Iraq plan," The Raw Story, May 5, 2005. Read the letter.
• the pessimist, "The Impeachment That Won't Happen," The Left Coaster, May 5, 2005.
• "Why Blair must be impeached," The Sunday Herald UK, May 5, 2005.
• Ken Sanders, "Smoking Gun Memo Appears, but Where's the Outrage?," Dissident Voice, May 5, 2005.
• Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott, "British memo indicates Bush made intelligence fit Iraq policy," Knight Ridder, May 5, 2005.
• "High Crimes and Misdemeanors: Dan Plesch argues that impeachment charges on Tony Blair would strengthen democracy in Britain," Birkbeck University of London, May 6, 2005.
• Jason Leopold, "Weapons Report Reveals Impeachable Offenses," Progressive Trail, May 6, 2005.
• Andrew Greely, "How long can Bush spin big lies into truth on Iraq war?," Chicago Sun-Times, May 6, 2005.
• Joe Conason, "Afraid to tell the truth. A secret memo publicized in Britain confirms the lies on which Bush based his Iraq policy. Why has it received so little notice in the U.S. press?," Salon, May 6, 2005.
• Robert Shetterly, "Administration's Offenses Impeachable", Bangor Daily News, June 3, 2005.
• David Callendar, "It's True...Wisconsin State Dems Vote for Impeachment of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld," PDXLEFT Blogspot, June 13, 2005.
• Kevin Zeese and Ralph Nader, "The Growing Case for a Resolution of Inquiry," Democracy Rising.US, June 13, 2005.
• Francis A. Boyle, "The National Campaign to Impeach President George W. Bush," Dissident Voice, June 14, 2005. Provides comprehensive overview of national and international offenses.
• Billmon, "Getting Traction," Whiskey Bar, June 16, 2005.
• "Mothers of Slain Soldiers, Others, Demand Bush's Impeachment," Capitol Hill Blue, June 17, 2005.
• Paul Koring, "Launch Drive to Impeach Bush," The Globe and Mail (Canada), June 17, 2005.
• Colin Brown, "US lied to Britain over use of napalm in Iraq war," The Independent (UK), June 17, 2005.
• Larisa Alexandrovna and John Byrne, "The unofficial war: U.S., Britain led massive secret bombing campaign before Iraq war was declared," The Raw Story, June 27, 2005.
• Robert Parry, "War or Impeachment," Consortium News, June 28, 2005.
• Zogby poll, June 30, 2005: "President Bush's televised address to the nation produced no noticeable bounce in his approval numbers, with his job approval rating slipping a point from a week ago, to 43%, in the latest Zogby International poll. And, in a sign of continuing polarization, more than two-in-five voters (42%) say they would favor impeachment proceedings if it is found the President misled the nation about his reasons for going to war with Iraq."
• Tom Regan, "Secret air campaign against Iraq? Downing Street memo, other documents may show war really started earlier than March 2003," Christian Science Monitor, June 30, 2005.
• Noam Chomsky, "It's imperialism, stupid," uruknet.info, July 4, 2005.
• Robert Parry, "What to Do About the Bush Problem," Consortium News, September 23, 2005.
• Murray Waas,"Cheney, Lobby Blocked Papers to Senate Intelligence Committee" National Journal, Oct. 27, 2005
• Murray Waas and Paul Singer,"Addington's Role in Cheney's Office Draws Fresh Attention," National Journal, Oct.30, 2005
• Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus, "Asterisks Dot White House's Iraq Argument," Washington Post, November 12, 2005.
• Murray Waas, "Key Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel," National Journal, November 30, 2005.
• Ruth Conniff, "Bush as Nixon," The Progressive, December 19, 2005.
• Matthew Rothschild, "Bush Takes the Crown," The Progressive, December 19, 2005.
• "Congressman calls for Bush impeachment," Associated Press (Access NorthGa), December 20, 2005.
• Doug Ireland, "A Time to Impeach," AlterNet, December 20, 2005.
• Editorial: "Bush's High Crimes," The Nation, posted December 20, 2005 (January 9, 2006 issue).
• Jonathan Schell, "The Hidden State Steps Forward," The Nation, posted December 20, 2005 (January 9, 2006 issue).
• Faiz Shakir, "Conservative Scholars Argue Bush’s Wiretapping Is An Impeachable Offense," Think Progress, December 20, 2005.
• John Nichols, "Raising the Issue of Impeachment," The Nation, December 20, 2005.
• Paul Kane, "Boxer Raises Impeachment. Democrat Asks 'Full Airing' of Spying Issue," Roll Call, December 20, 2005. Subscription required.
• Howard Fineman, "Spying, the Constitution — and the 'I-word'. 2006 will offer up Nixon-era nastiness and a chorus of calls to impeach Bush," MSNBC, December 21, 2005: "Nixon 2.0."
• Dan Froomkin, "Return of the 'I-Word'," Washington Post, December 21, 2005.
• "'Impeachment' Talk, Pro and Con, Appears in Media at Last," Editor & Publisher, December 21, 2005.
• Thomas G. Donlon, "Unwarranted Executive Power. The pursuit of terrorism does not authorize the president to make up new laws," Barron's, December 26, 2005 (issue); also see Matt Stoller, "Barron's Calls for Impeachment Hearings on Wiretapping," My DD, December 24, 2005.
• Ralph Nader, "Bush/Cheney Have Disgraced Their Office; They Should Resign," Common Dreams, December 24, 2005.
• Christopher Brauchli, "Bush's Closet of Presidential Prerogatives," Common Dreams, December 24, 2005.
• Editorial: "White House Prevarications," Washington Post, December 27, 2005.
• John W. Dean, "George W. Bush as the New Richard M. Nixon: Both Wiretapped Illegally, and Impeachably; Both Claimed That a President May Violate Congress' Laws to Protect National Security," FindLaw's Writ, December 30, 2005.

2006

• "Impeachment hearings: The White House prepares for the worst," Insight Magazine (News World Communications), January 23-29, 2006 (posted January 23, 2006).
• Murray Waas,"Cheney Authorized Libby to Leak Classified Information," National Journal, February 9, 2006.
• Murray Waas,"What Bush Was Told About Iraq" National Journal, March 2, 2006, and via Truthout.org.
• Tom Curry, "Who does impeachment/censure talk benefit? Democrat Pelosi sees anti-Bush acts as diversion from election message," MSNBC, March 17, 2006.
• Joan Vennochi, "Fanning the political flames," Boston Globe, March 19, 2006.
• Sarah Baxter, "‘Impeach Bush’ chorus grows," Times Online (UK), March 19, 2006.
• Peter Phillips, "Impeachment Movement Gains National Momentum. Media Yawns," CounterPunch, March 24, 2006.
• Charlie Savage "Bush shuns Patriot Act requirement. In addendum to law, he says oversight rules are not binding," Boston Globe, March 24, 2006.
• Harvey Wasserman, "Bush Makes Iraq the Vital Reason for His Impeachment and Removal," Free Press (Common Dreams), March 27, 2006.
• Murray Waas,"Insulating Bush," National Journal, March 30, 2006.
• John Prados, "Bush's Paper Trail Grows," Tom Paine (Common Dreams), April 3, 2006.
• Greg Sargent, "The Plame Game. What Murray Waas’s big scoop may really tell us about Bush’s pre-war deceptions," The American Prospect Online, April 4, 2006.
• Dave Lindorff, "The Impeachment Clock Just Clicked Forward. Leaking, Lying and Burning Covert Agents from the Oval Office," CounterPunch, April 7 / 9, 2006.
• Tom Raum, Newsview: "Leak-Hating President, As Leaker," Associated Press (ABC News), April 7, 2006.
• Steve Holland, "W.House does not dispute leak claim," Reuters, April 7, 2006.
• Eleanor Clift, "Farewell, Fig Leaf. Bush called for a criminal investigation to 'get to the bottom' of the CIA leak scandal. It turns out he may be the bottom," Newsweek (MSNBC), April 7, 2006.
• Tom Regan, "Did Bush misuse presidential powers? Experts: Leaks are probably legal but 'amount to using sensitive intelligence data for political gain'," Christian Science Monitor, April 7, 2006.
• Matthew Rothschild, "Libby, Gonzales Provide More Grounds for Censure or Impeachment," The Progressive (Common Dreams), April 7, 2006.
• Cenk Uygur, "The President Is Trying to Get Impeached," The Huffington Post (Common Dreams), April 7, 2006.
• Ralph Nader, "American Caesar," Common Dreams, April 8, 2006.
• Derrick Z. Jackson, "Another White House is Buying Silence," Boston Globe, April 8, 2006: "The next thing you know, President Bush will channel Richard Nixon to say, 'I am not a crook.'"
• Editorial: "Truth and Leaks. Bush revelation another blow to credibility," Detroit Free Press, April 8, 2006.
• Opinion: "Leaker in Chief," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 8, 2006.
• Todd Buchanan, [http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0408-27.htm "Daily Camera (Boulder, CO) (Common Dreams), April 8, 2006.
• Dan Dewalt, "Why Our Small Town Called for Bush to be Impeached. The worst failing of any nation is for its citizens no longer to scrutinize their government," Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (Common Dreams), April 9, 2006.
• Joan Vennochi, "A leaky president," Boston Globe, April 9, 2006.
• "CIA leak probe circles back to cast Bush as leaker in chief," USA Today, April 9, 2006.
• Elizabeth de la Vega, "Final Jeopardy, Asking the Right Question About the President's Involvement in the CIA Leak Affair," OpEdNews, April 9, 2006.
• Margaret Carlson, Commentary: "Bush's Search for Leakers Leads to His Mirror," Bloomberg News, April 10, 2006.
• Geov Parrish, "L'etat, c'est moi". Bush declares himself above the law -- has the first American dictatorship already arrived?" WorkingForChange, April 10, 2006.
• Opinion: "From imperial president to imperial hyprocrite," Palm Beach Post, April 10, 2006.
• Sidney Blumenthal, "The Slow-Motion Trap," Salon (After Downing Street, April 13, 2006.
• Sean Wilentz, "The Worst President in History? One of America's leading historians assesses George W. Bush," Rolling Stone, April 21, 2006.
• Jay Rosen, "Snow at the Podium, Rollback on the Rocks," New York University's PressThink Weblog, April 28, 2006: "The White House evacuated spaces where the president can legitimately be questioned because it was Adminstration policy in general that Bush's authority went unchallenged, his descriptions of the world uncontested. This made him more brittle, but they felt strong doing it."
• Mark Silva, "Cheney exempts his own office from reporting on classified material," Chicago Tribune (Mercury News), April 29, 2006.
• Charlie Savage, "Bush challenges hundreds of laws. President cites powers of his office," Boston Globe, April 30, 2006; truthout.
• Glenn Greenwald, "Media finally starting to report the President's systematic lawbreaking" (updated below), Glenn Greenwald Blogspot, April 30, 2006.
• Jack Balkin, "President Bush: 'It's Not Law Unless I Say So (And Even If I Said So)'," Balkinization, May 1, 2006.
• Onnesha Roychoudhuri, "Bush can disobey 750 laws," AlterNet, May 1, 2006: "In his unending quest for an imperial presidency, Bush regularly decides to ignore laws he doesn't like."
• Gene Healy and Timothy Lynch, "Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush," Cato Institute, May 1, 2006.
• Caroline Daniel, "Bush in ‘ceaseless push for power’," Financial Times (UK), May 1, 2006.
• Paul Craig Roberts, "Endgame for the Constitution. The Omnipotent (But Far From Omniscient) Executive," CounterPunch, May 2, 2006.
• Glenn Greenwald, "Facts that reflect poorly on president," Unclaimed Territory, May 2, 2006.
• Scot Lehigh, "Our monarch, above the law," Boston Globe, May 2, 2006.
• "Al Neuharth Bashes Bush, Says His Supporters are 'In Denial'," Editor & Publisher, May 4, 2006.
• "Bush calls terror fight WWIII. US President George W. Bush has said the September 11 revolt of passengers against their hijackers on board Flight 93 had struck the first blow of 'World War III'," Agence France Presse (News.com.au), May 6, 2006.
• Ron Fullwood, "Bush and Repugs at Their Most Dangerous; Scorching the Earth Behind Them. This could be the most dangerous period of Bush's reign," OpEdNews, May 7, 2006.
• Rep. John Conyers, "It's Checks and Balances, Mr. Russert," The Huffington Post, May 7, 2006.
• Andrea Hopkins, "Dems pledge investigation before impeachment," Capitol Hill Blue, May 8, 2006.
• F. William Engdahl, "The US's geopolitical nightmare," Asia Times, May 9, 2006.
• Sidney Blumenthal, "A state of emergency. Bush is a danger to the constitution in his wartime capacity as commander in chief," Guardian Unlimited (UK), June 1, 2006.
• Peter Baker and Michael Abramowitz, "A Governing Philosophy Rebuffed. Ruling Emphasizes Constitutional Boundaries," Washington Post, June 30, 2006.
• Michael Abramowitz, "Conservative Anger Grows Over Bush's Foreign Policy," Washington Post, July 19, 2006: "Most of the most scathing critiques of the administration from erstwhile supporters are being expressed within think tanks and in journals and op-ed pages followed by a foreign policy elite in Washington and New York."
• Anatol Lieven, "Bush's Middle East Democracy Flop. The U.S. has alienated potential allies and undermined its own stated goals," Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2006.
• Chris Floyd, "CYA Agents: Bush Hit Men Running Scared," Empire Burlesque, August 1, 2006.
• Dan Froomkin,"Signing Statements Strike a Nerve," Washington Post, August 2, 2006.
• Commentary: "Bush is signing away our checks and balances," Chicago Sun-Times, August 2, 2006.
• Aziz Huq, "We're All Enemy Combatants Now," TomPaine.com, August 2, 2006.
• Byron York, "The Democrats’ Impeachment Road Map. It’s finished, ready to go — and waiting for November," National Review Online, August 7, 2006.
• Faiz Shakir, "Bush Now Says What He Wouldn’t Say Before War: Iraq Had ‘Nothing’ To Do With 9/11," Think Progress, August 21, 2006.
• Dan Eggen, "CIA Acknowledges 2 Interrogation Memos. Papers Called Too Sensitive for Release," Washington Post, November 14, 2006.
• Elizabeth de la Vega, "A Fraud Worse than Enron," TomDispatch.com, November 27, 2006. Introduction: "Bringing Bush to Court," by Tom Engelhardt. Excerpted from United States v. George W. Bush et al. by Elizabeth de la Vega, published December 1, 2006 by Seven Stories Press and Tomdispatch.com.
• Rob Kall, "Pelosi and Conyers—Smarter Than Impeachment," OpEdNews, December 25, 2006. re Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers, Jr.

2007

• "Do-It-Yourself Impeachment...," Impeach for Peace.org, undated.
• A. Alexander, "Bush, Rove, the Federal Prosecutors and Political Terrorism," The Progressive Daily Beacon, January 22, 2006.
• Elizabeth Holtzman, "Impeachment: The Case in Favor," The Nation, January 25, 2007 (February 12, 2007 issue).
• Elizabeth de la Vega, "Public Misconduct. A Call to Investigate All of the President's Men," TomDispatch.com (Common Dreams), February 28, 2007.
• David Swanson, "Powell's Chief of Staff Proposes Impeachment," After Downing Street, May 10, 2007.
• David Swanson, "What Do These Crimes Have in Common?" OpEdNews, May 18, 2007.
• Nico Pitney, "Conyers Raises Specter Of Impeachment, Highlights Support For Removing Bush And Cheney," Think Progress, July 8, 2007.
• Jack Balkin, "Constitutional Hardball in the Bush Administration," Balkinization Blogspot, July 13, 2007.

2008

• Murray Waas, "The Case of the Gonzales Notes," The Atlantic, Sept. 26 2008.
• Murray Waas, "What Did Bush Tell Gonzales?" The Atlantic, Sept. 26, 2008.
• Glenn Greenwald, "Interview with Murray Waas," Salon Radio, Sept. 26, 2008.
• Murray Waas,"Cheney's Admissions to the CIA Leak Prosecutor and FBI", Dec. 23, 2008.

2009

• David Swanson, "Conyers Explains Why Bush Wasn't Impeached," the American Chronicle, Jan. 14, 2009.
• Elizabeth Holtzman, "Holding Bush Accountable," The Nation, Jan. 15, 2009.