Larry Flynt

OFFENSE: Abuse of power by claiming the authority to ignore 750 laws, including military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, immigration disclosure requirements, whistleblower protections and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.

IN VIOLATION OF: Presidential Oath of Office; U.S. Constitution, Article II—grounds for impeachment.

EVIDENCE: Presidential “signing statements” that declare intention to disregard laws signed.

PENALTIES: Congressional censure; impeachment; removal from office.

OFFENSE: Authorizing the National Security Agency (NSA) wiretapping program.

IN VIOLATION OF: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA); Presidential Oath of Office; U.S. Constitution: Amendment IV—right to privacy and condition of probable cause.

EVIDENCE: Admissions by Bush and administration officials, including the Attorney General.

PENALTIES: Impeachment; removal from office.

OFFENSE: Willfully lying and misleading the American people regarding alleged threats to the nation and reasons for invasion of Iraq; falsification of evidence; conspiracy (with highest-ranking members of the administration) to defraud the American people; authorizing wars of aggression.

IN VIOLATION OF: Presidential Oath of Office; U.S. Constitution; Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 371—conspiracy to defraud United States; Executive Orders 12674 and 12731—principles of ethical conduct and fulfillment of the public trust; international laws against war crimes and crimes against humanity (U.N. and Nuremberg Charters); U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 3—faithful execution of law as Presidential duty.

EVIDENCE: Intelligence analyses and estimates; Pentagon assessments; testimony by intelligence and military officials; Downing Street Memo, stating evidence was being “fixed around the policy”; Presidential statements regarding doctrine of preemptive war; stated intention by Bush Administration appointees and advisers prior to 9/11 attacks to “rebuild America’s defenses,” facilitate “regime change” in Iraq and establish American dominance; false claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

PENALTIES: Impeachment; removal from office; indictment by international tribunal.

OFFENSE: Authorizing illegal war conduct and occupation of foreign countries; commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity (including torture and illegal treatment of prisoners); deaths of civilians.

IN VIOLATION OF: Geneva Conventions; War Crimes Act; international human rights law.

EVIDENCE: Historical record; photographic evidence of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere; photographic evidence of illegal war conduct in Iraq and Afghanistan; hundreds of thousands of dead civilians; victim testimony; administration disclosures regarding interrogation methods and treatment of prisoners.

PENALTIES: Indictment by international tribunal; compensation to victims; impeachment; removal from office; imprisonment. (Note: Congress has granted Bush retroactive immunity—which may prove unconstitutional—by passing the Military Commissions Act.)

OFFENSE: Authorizing indefinite detention and transfer of persons in U.S. custody to foreign countries for torture; using military forces to seize and detain U.S. citizens and immigrants indefinitely and without charge.

IN VIOLATION OF: International human rights law; Geneva Conventions; U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9—right of habeas corpus; Amendment IV—right to privacy and condition of probable cause; Civil Rights Act; Presidential Oath of Office.

EVIDENCE: Bush Administration and European Parliament disclosures regarding “rendition” practices and secret CIA prisons; victim testimony.

PENALTIES: Indictment by international tribunal; impeachment; removal from office; compensation to individual victims; imprisonment.

OFFENSE: Authorizing the leak of classified information relating to the status and identity of a CIA agent.

IN VIOLATION OF: Title 50, U.S. Code, Section 421; Presidential Oath of Office; U.S. Constitution, Article II—high crimes and misdemeanors.

EVIDENCE: Leaked White House details on NOC (non-official cover) agent Valerie Plame; evidence resulting from Fitzgerald investigation.

PENALTIES: Impeachment; removal from office; imprisonment.

OFFENSE: Conspiracy to commit manslaughter and/or murder by allowing, facilitating or failing to prevent the 9/11 attacks.

IN VIOLATION OF: Statutory laws against murder; U.S. Constitution, Article III—treason; Title 18, U.S. Code, Chapter 51—homicide.

EVIDENCE: Failure to respond to warnings of impending attacks; negligence and delayed action on 9/11; evidence of possible government involvement (excluded from official investigation); historical and media record of 9/11.

PENALTIES: Impeachment; removal from office; imprisonment.

OFFENSE: Violation of separation of Church and State, resulting in harmful and discriminatory policies, including obstruction of attempts to fight HIV/AIDS, promotion of unproven methods such as abstinence and faith-based sex education, and discriminatory policies on marriage and abortion.

IN VIOLATION OF: U.S. Constitution, Amendment I—separation of Church and State; Presidential Oath of Office.

EVIDENCE: Historical record; Presidential policy statements; religion-influenced legislation.

PENALTIES: Impeachment; removal from office.

OFFENSE: Willful misrepresentation of evidence and rejection of scientific consensus regarding global warming; refusal to curb greenhouse gas emissions; withdrawal from international climate agreements.

IN VIOLATION OF: The public trust and the interests of the American people.

EVIDENCE: International scientific consensus; Presidential statements; evidence that government scientific documents were edited by White House officials to downplay threat.

PENALTIES: Congressional censure; international censure.

OFFENSE: Failure to prevent suffering and loss of life prior to, during and following Hurricane Katrina; negligent homicide and/or manslaughter.

IN VIOLATION OF: Presidential Oath of Office; Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 1112—manslaughter; statutory laws in the affected states.

EVIDENCE: Historical record of inadequate response; photographic record; victim testimony; Presidential admission.

PENALTIES: Impeachment; removal from office; imprisonment.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: One of the most egregious misdeeds of the Bush Administration’s, the passage of the unconstitutional legistlation known as USA PATRIOT Act and Military Commissions Act, was done with the approval of Congress. These laws violate the U.S. Constitution, Amendments I, IV and VI (rights to freedom of speech, privacy and due process, respectively) and Article I, Section 9 (right to habeas corpus). That these laws are unconstitutional has been confirmed by numerous assessments from Constitutional and civil-rights lawyers and experts. The historical record and the testimony of victims are evidence that these laws are being abused and clearly violate civil rights.

For more information, see BushCommission.org; the House Judiciary Committee’s report “The Constitution in Crisis” and Elizabeth de la Vega’s book, United States v. George W. Bush et al.