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Greens accuse Democratic Party leaders of ignoring new revelations of Bush high crimes and misdemeanors, citing Dems refusal to pursue impeachment

• White House obstructed a grand jury investigation if it withheld evidence about Bush's leak authorization in Plame case, say Greens.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party candidates and leaders faulted Democrats for refusing to hold President Bush and his administration accountable for a mounting list of high crimes and misdemeanors.

"Hardly a month goes by without major new evidence that the Bush White House has lied to the American people," said Byron DeLear, Green candidate for Congress in California's 28th District . "Democratic leaders and moderate Republicans in Congress have hardly mustered a peep of collective protest. Rep. John Conyers [D-Mich.] has introduced a House resolution calling for investigation and possible impeachment; Sen. Russell Feingold [D-Wisc.] has prepared a motion for censure. But their fellow Democrats have declined to join them."

The Green Party of the United States called for impeachment of President Bush initially in July 2003, citing widespread and deliberate deception in making the case for invasion of Iraq, as well as numerous violations of the U.S. Constitution and international law to which the U.S. is signatory . As further evidence of White House deceit and crimes have surfaced, Greens have reiterated the demand for impeachment
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Among recent revelations:

• Lewis 'Scooter' Libby's April 6 testimony that President Bush himself authorized the leak disclosing Valerie Plame's CIA employment indicates that Mr. Bush knowingly withheld material evidence from the grand jury investigation of reporter Judith Miller. The White House has not denied Mr. Libby's allegation; the obstruction of evidence -- a possible felony -- was clearly motivated by politics rather than national security.

• In 2003, President Bush continued to allege that two trailers captured in Iraq were mobile biological weapons laboratories, even after Defense Intelligence Agency had informed the White House that the facilities had nothing to do with biological weapons. (Reuters, April 12, 2006, )

• According to a confidential memo from Prime Minister Tony Blair's office revealed in The New York Times on March 27, 2006
, President Bush told Mr. Blair that he was determined to invade Iraq without a second U.N. resolution and regardless of whether arms inspectors failed to find Saddam Hussein's purported WMDs. The report confirms evidence in the Downing Street memo that Mr. Bush was set on in invasion and that intelligence and information fed to the public were "fixed", i.e., manipulated to support his intentions.

Greens note that these revelations are consistent with President Bush's assertion that he had the right to order the National Security Agency to engage in surveillance against U.S. citizens without a warrant in accord with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the Fourth Amendment.

"These new crimes are hardly surprising to those of us who recognized the fraud behind the war from the very beginning and the vote obstruction in the 2004 national election," said Michael Berg, who is seeking the Green nomination for Delaware's lone seat in the House of Representatives . "As the mountain of evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors has grown, so has the cowardice of the Democratic Party leadership."

"It is criminal that the Democratic elected officials allowed this country to invade Iraq, and it is criminal that they continue to support an illegal war," added Aaron Dixon, Green candidate for the U.S. Senate in Washington .

MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org
1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404
Washington, DC 20009.
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193

Green Party responses to the 2006 State of the Union, including a call for impeachment
http://www.gp.org/video/2006stateofunion/

"The Case for Impeachment: Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush"
By Lewis H. Lapham, Harper's Magazine, March 2006
http://www.harpers.org/TheCaseForImpeachment.html (excerpt)

"Gangster Government: A leaky President runs afoul of 'Little Rico'"
By Greg Palast, Buzzflash, April 9, 2006
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=490&row=0
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