[CitizensTruth] US "news media" silent on 35 articles of impeachment against Bush

[Hal Snyder]

I just did a search of home pages for the following alleged news  
sources for "impeach", to see if there was any mention of the  
articles of impeachment against George W. Bush offered in Dennis  
Kucinich's resolution last night. Only one network matched. (Even NPR  
avoided the story.) The CBS story was a short blurb from Politico  
with minimal context.

Scroll down for a quick summary of the 35 articles.

ABC - no
CBS - yes
NBC - no
FOX - no
NPR - no
CNN - no

Thinkprogress.org has the first few minutes of video from C-span  
coverage of the House floor last night.
<http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/09/breakingkucinich-introduces- 
articles-of-impeachment-against-bush/>

I'm appending an excerpt from Danny Schechter's bulletin with a  
summary of the complaints.

Hal

****** from NEWS DISSECTOR June 10, 2008 ******
KUCINICH BELIEVES THE TIME HAS COME FOR IMPEACHMENT?
DEMS ON THE HILL WANT TO INVESTIGATE OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF
HAS THERE BEEN A SILENT COUP IN ZIMBABWE?
IS LEHMAN BROTHERS THE NEXT TO GO?

Are the gloves finally coming off? Will there ever be a day of  
reckoning for this Administration? Impeachment seemed off the agenda,  
but, Monday evening, Congressman Dennis Kucinch took a leap that  
others feared to take and read 35 articles of impeachment against  
President Bush.

CSPAN carried this effort by a modern day David to bring down Goliath  
live. (Not sure this is "the revolution" but it was televised!)

David Swanson reports:

The full text of the articles is available here:

http://chun.afterdowningstreet.org/amomentoftruth.pdf

Extensive documentation to accompany each article will be posted  
later today. Watch these websites:
http://kucinich.usl; http://democrats.com; http://afterdowningstreet.org

Congressman Kucinich has laid out an extensive indictment of the  
President. Here is the index of article titles:

Article I
Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for  
War Against Iraq

Article II
Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the  
Attacks of September 11, 2001, With Misrepresentation of Iraq as a  
Security Threat as Part of Fraudulent Justification for a War of
Aggression

Article III
Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe  
Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, to Manufacture a False  
Case for War

Article IV
Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe  
Iraq Posed an Imminent Threat to the United States

Article V
Illegally Misspending Funds to Secretly Begin a War of Aggression

Article VI
Invading Iraq in Violation of the Requirements of HJRes114

Article VII
Invading Iraq Absent a Declaration of War.

Article VIII
Invading Iraq, A Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the UN Charter

Article IX
Failing to Provide Troops With Body Armor and Vehicle Armor

Article X
Falsifying Accounts of US Troop Deaths and Injuries for Political  
Purposes

Article XI
Establishment of Permanent U.S. Military Bases in Iraq

Article XII
Initiating a War Against Iraq for Control of That Nation's Natural  
Resources

Article XIIII
Creating a Secret Task Force to Develop Energy and Military Policies  
With Respect to Iraq and Other Countries

Article XIV
Misprision of a Felony, Misuse and Exposure of Classified Information  
And Obstruction of Justice in the Matter of Valerie Plame Wilson,  
Clandestine Agent of the Central Intelligence Agency

Article XV
Providing Immunity from Prosecution for Criminal Contractors in Iraq

Article XVI
Reckless Misspending and Waste of U.S. Tax Dollars in Connection With  
Iraq and US Contractors

Article XVII
Illegal Detention: Detaining Indefinitely And Without Charge Persons  
Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign Captives

Article XVIII
Torture: Secretly Authorizing, and Encouraging the Use of Torture  
Against Captives in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Other Places, as a Matter  
of Official Policy

Article XIX
Rendition: Kidnapping People and Taking Them Against Their Will to  
"Black Sites" Located in Other Nations, Including Nations Known to  
Practice Torture

Article XX
Imprisoning Children

Article XXI
Misleading Congress and the American People About Threats from Iran,  
and Supporting Terrorist Organizations Within Iran, With the Goal of  
Overthrowing the Iranian Government

Article XXII
Creating Secret Laws

Article XXIII
Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act

Article XXIV
Spying on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in  
Violation of the Law and the Fourth Amendment

Article XXV
Directing Telecommunications Companies to Create an Illegal and  
Unconstitutional Database of the Private Telephone Numbers and Emails  
of American Citizens

Article XXVI
Announcing the Intent to Violate Laws with Signing Statements

Article XXVII
Failing to Comply with Congressional Subpoenas and Instructing Former  
Employees Not to Comply

Article XXVIII
Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the  
Administration of Justice

Article XXIX
Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Article XXX
Misleading Congress and the American People in an Attempt to Destroy  
Medicare

Article XXXI
Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane  
Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency

Article XXXII
Misleading Congress and the American People, Systematically  
Undermining Efforts to Address Global Climate Change

Article XXXIII
Repeatedly Ignored and Failed to Respond to High Level Intelligence  
Warnings of Planned Terrorist Attacks in the US, Prior to 911.

Article XXXIV
Obstruction of the Investigation into the Attacks of September 11, 2001

Article XXXV
Endangering the Health of 911 First Responders

******


> Ending on C-Span - Dennis Kuncinich just introduced a resolution on  

> the House floor bringing 35 articles of impeachment against George  

> W. Bush.

>

> Rep. Kucinich calls for Bush impeachment

> http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSN09301988

>

> Democrats.com Applauds Dennis Kucinich for Introducing Articles of  

> Impeachment

> http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/33971

>

> Kucinich: Impeach Bush [note reader comments]

> <http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/06/ 

> kucinich_pushing_for_bush_impe.html>

>