An edition of The Constitution in crisis
(2007)
The Constitution in crisis
the high crimes of the Bush administration and a blueprint for impeachment
by Elizabeth Holtzman
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Politics and government, Political corruption, Misconduct in office, Impeachment, Foreign relations, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Causes, Political crimes and offenses, Bush, george w. (george walker), 1946-, Political crimes and offenses, united states, United states, politics and government, 2001-2009, United states, foreign relations, 2001-2009| Edition | Availability |
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The Constitution in crisis: the high crimes of the Bush administration and a blueprint for impeachment
2007, Skyhorse Pub.
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Constitution in Crisis: The High Crimes of the Bush Administration and a Blueprint for Impeachment
2007, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
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Table of Contents
The Downing Street minutes and deception, manipulation, torture, retribution and coverups in the Iraq war
Chronology : last throes of credibility
Detailed findings
Determination to go to war before congressional authorization
Avenging the father and working with the neo-cons
September 11 and its aftermath : beating the drums for war
The Downing Street minutes and documentary evidence of an agreement to go to war
Description and analysis of various Downing Street minutes materials
Confirmation and corroboration of Downing Street minutes materials
Manipulating public opinion
Using the United Nations as a pretext for war
Misstating and manipulating the intelligence to justify pre-emptive war
Links to September 11 and Al Qaeda
General linkages between Iraq and Al Qaeda
Meeting between Mohammed Atta and Iraqi officials
Iraq training Al Qaeda members to use chemical and biological weapons
Resumed efforts to acquire nuclear weapons
General assertions
Claims regarding Hussein's son-in-law
Statement that Iraq was six months from obtaining a nuclear weapon
Aluminum tubes
Acquisition of uranium from Niger
Chemical and biological weapons
General assertions regarding chemical and biological weapons
Assertions regarding buried chemical and other weapons
Assertions regarding mobile biological weapons
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Encouraging and countenancing torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
Documented instances of torture and other legal violations
Torture and murder
Cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
Bush administration responsiblity for torture and other possible violations of international treaties
Bush administration responsibility for torture and other legal violations
Department of Justice
Department of Defense
Cover-ups and retribution
The Niger forgeries and the "sliming" of Ambassador Wilson and his family
Disclosure and panic
Retribution and damage
Delays, conflicts, and more lies
Other instances of Bush administration retribution against its critics
Former general Eric Shinseki and others in the military
Former secretary of treasury Paul O'Neill and economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey
Richard Clarke
Cindy Sheehan
Jeffrey Kofman
International organizations
the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the IAEA
Bunnatine greenhouse
The Central Intelligence Agency and its employees
Ongoing lies, deceptions and manipulations
Efficacy of the occupation
Cost of the war and occupation
Ongoing deceptions regarding weapons of mass destruction and the decision to go to war
Impact of the Iraq war on terrorism
Thwarting Congress and the American public : the death of accountability under the Bush administration and the Republican-controlled Congress
Determination to go to war without Congressional authorization
Manipulation of the intelligence to justify the war
Encouraging and countenancing torture
Post-war cover-ups and retribution and more deceptions
Unlawful domestic surveillance and the decline of civil liberties under the administration of George W. Bush
Chronology : democracy without checks and balances
Detailed findings
Domestic surveillance : spying on innocent Americans without court approval and outside of the law
The warrantless surveillance program violates FISA and the Fourth Amendment, the NSA database program appears to violate the Stored Communications Act and the Communications Act of 1934, and the programs have been briefed in violation of the National Security Act
September 11 use of force resolution
Inherent authority as commander-in-chief
Fourth amendment
NSA domestic database program
Additional non-legal justifications
Intelligence briefings in violation of the National Security Act
The legal justifications used to justify the NSA programs threaten to establish a constitutionally destabilizing precedent
President Bush and other high ranking members of the Bush administration appear to have made a number of misleading statements concerning the NSA programs
Statements that the government was only intercepting communications involving American citizens pursuant to court approved warrants
Statements that no purely domestic communications were intercepted under the warrantless wiretapping program
Statements that the government is not monitoring telephone calls and other communications within the U.S.
Statements that members of Congress briefed by the Bush administration had not questioned the legality or appropriateness of the NSA programs
There is little indication the domestic spying programs have been beneficial in the war against terror, while there is a significant risk the programs may be affirmatively harming terrorism prosecutions and tying up law enforcement resources
The NSA programs appear to have been implemented in a manner designed to stifle objections and dissent within the administration
Continued stonewalling of Congress and the American people
Addendum
Analysis
Recommendations
Conclusion
Endnotes
Legal standards and authorities
Major reports
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references
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