thereby in affect, unmaking a US treaty, the treaty wherein the US joined the UN. Given a President can unmake a US treaty at will, we need to change the US Constitution to require a 2/3rd vote of the US Senate in order to unmaking of treaties in the future.
2. deliberately misled the nation and doctored intelligence, as described in the Downing Street minutes, about the threat from Iraq in order to justify a war of aggression and an occupation of Iraq. The Bush Administration members repeatedly lied to the people of the United States about the WMD treat from Iraq.
3. caused various US departments to censor or change scientific research results (lie to the American people) and in addition, kept secret the toxic hazard of the dust from the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City on 9/11.
4. Declared a "war" against terrorism. This is was/is a lie. There is no such thing. A "war" is against a nation state and has a beginning and a end. Note: The Korean War was the first war in which the U.S. waged that was declared by the UN Security Council due to the U.S. Senate ratifying the UN Treaty. A program of world wide crime law endorsement, doesn't give the President the same powers as in a time of WAR.
4. detained thousands of prisoners without charges, violating their habeas corpus rights, detain them in secret prisions or transferred them to countries known to torture prisioners and refused to tell the Red Cross the names of detainees and where they were held, in violation of the Geneva and Hague Convention (ghost priosoners), and held these detainees and released many of them, for years without a trial.
5. condoned the torture of prisoners in violation of the Geneva Conventions, the US anti-torture statute of 1994, the US War Crimes Act of 1996, and the oath of office.
Bush's refusal to faithfully execute the laws prohibiting torture and his declaration on February 7, 2002 that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to prisoners in Afghanistan and in Guantanamo set the stage for torture there.
The Rumsfeld approved Guantanamo torture techniques were then imported to Iraq in August 2003, where the International Committee of the Red Cross found "systemic" mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners in several facilities and where the Schlesinger Report confirmed in August 2004 that abuses were "widespread" and "serious both in number and in effect," and that there is both "institutional and personal responsibility at higher levels"; and
6. Allowed the continued and massive use of Depleted Uranium weapons violating: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Charter of the United Nations; the Genocide Convention; the four Geneva Conventions of 1949; the Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980; and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, which expressly forbid employing 'poison or poisoned weapons' and 'arms, projectiles or materials calculated to cause unnecessary suffering'. All of these laws are designed to spare civilians from unwarranted suffering in armed conflicts. used "weapons of extermination of present and future generations, genocidal in properties"
* weapons may only be used against legal enemy military targets and must not have an adverse effect elsewhere (the territorial rule)* weapons can only be used for the duration of an armed conflict and must not be used or continue to act afterwards (the temporal rule)
* weapons may not have an unduly negative effect on the natural environment (the "environmental" rule).
7. approved at least two different illegal electronic surveillance programs of American citizens without a warrant in violation of the fourth amendment and in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and repeatedly lied to the American people by stating that no surveillance was taking place without a court order.
The first program includes intercepting phone and email conversations without warrants and was exposed by the NY Times on December 16, 2005. After that program was exposed Bush said the program was carefully targeted to just include international calls and suspected members of Al Qaeda. Then, the second program was exposed by USA Today on May 11, 2006. It provides a wholesale attack on the fourth amendment by recording call identification information of tens of millions of purely domestic calls as well as international calls;
8. According to papers filed in court by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in April 2006, there was "concerted action" by "multiple people in the White House" to "discredit, punish or seek revenge against" former Ambassador Joseph Wilson for his July 6, 2003 NY Times op ed piece in retaliation, and to silence other would-be critics, the White House collected information about Wilson and disclosed to reporters that his wife, Valerie Plame, was a covert agent in the CIA counterinsurgency division, putting her life, and the lives of her contacts, at risk in violation of a US law protecting intelligence personnel (The Impeachment of George W. Bush, by Elizabeth Holtzman), and
9. condoned criminal conduct and obstructed justice by commuting the sentence of convicted perjurer Scooter Libby to keep him silent and to demonstrate that Bush and Cheney will not allow high officials in the administration to be held accountable for their criminal acts;
10. converted the Justice Department into an arm of the Republican Party by firing meritorious federal prosecutors who refused to base decisions on whom to prosecute on political considerations-
11. obstructed congressional investigations of these and other acts by the administration by defying subpoenas from Senate and House committees seeking documents and testimony under oath by administration officials and former administration officials; and
12. as the sole person under the Federal Stafford Act with responsibility and authority to issue emergency orders to mobilize the military and any federal resources needed to aid and assist in a disaster (see Failure of Initiative, February 2006 report of the House Select Bipartisan Committee to investigate the Preparations for and the Response to Hurricane Katrina), Bush failed to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, violated the public trust, and demonstrated reckless and inexcusable indifference to human life before, during and after Hurricane Katrina. Bush knew but did not act until too late, and then he lied about it on national TV. Footage and transcripts from briefings Aug. 25-31 demonstrate that Bush was personally told well in advance of the "unprecedented strength" of the hurricane, the "devastating damage expected," and that "water shortages will make human suffering incredible," according to highly accurate predictions by the National Weather Service. The Associated Press reported that "in dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage". Yet Bush failed to muster resources to evacuate residents in advance and failed to assist New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina hit. Then three days later Bush told Good Morning America, "I don't think that anybody anticipated a breach of the levees." In years before the storm Bush demonstrated inexcusable criminal negligence and violated the public trust by cutting the budget for hurricane defense, though the high probability of the breaching of the levees and the enormous risk to human life from a major hurricane hitting New Orleans were predicted and well known for years before the hurricane hit.
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