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Indictments
Wars of Aggression
The Commission will inquire into the following charges:
Count
1: The Iraq war was a crime of aggression.
Count 2: The conduct
of the war involved the commission of "war crimes."
Count 3: The occupation of
Iraq involved, and continues to involve, the commission of "war crimes", "crimes against humanity" and other illegal acts.
Full indictment
Torture and Indefinite Detention
The Commission will inquire into the following charges:
Count 1: The Bush administration authorized the use of torture and abuse in violation of international
humanitarian and human rights law and domestic constitutional and statutory law.
Count 2:
The Bush administration authorized the transfer (“rendition”) of persons held in U.S. custody to foreign countries
where torture is known to be practiced.
Count 3: The Bush administration authorized
the indefinite detention of persons seized in foreign combat zones and in other countries far from any combat zone and denied
them the protections of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war and the protections of the U.S. Constitution.
Count 4: The Bush administration authorized the round-up and detention in the United States of tens
of thousands of immigrants on pretextual grounds and held them without charge or trial in violation of international human
rights law and domestic constitutional and civil rights law.
Count 5: The Bush
administration used military forces to seize and detain indefinitely without charges U.S. citizens, denying them the right
to challenge their detention in U.S. courts.
Count 6: The Bush administration
committed murder by authorizing the CIA to kill those that the president designates, either US citizens or non-citizens, anywhere
in the world.
Full indictment
Destruction of the Global Environment
The Commission will inquire into the following
charges:
Count 1: The Bush administration has consistently denied the scientific
consensus around global warming and its causes. Administration officials have misrepresented, distorted, and suppressed scientific
information on the subject, especially as it would impact public opinion.
Count 2:
The Bush administration has refused to take any measures to curb the emissions of greenhouse gases, guided by narrow corporate
interests. It has withdrawn from any international efforts that would impose binding restrictions, however minimal. It has
done this with full knowledge of the catastrophic effects of global warming and the disproportionate U.S. share of world greenhouse
gas emissions, the leading cause of global warming.
Full indictment
Attacks on Global Public Health
The Commission will inquire into the following charges:
Count 1: The Bush administration is using its political influence, aid and funding in HIV/AIDS prevention
and treatment programs to advance policies and programs that worsen the AIDS pandemic. Guided by a Christian fundamentalist
ideological agenda, the administration is promoting and forcing deadly abstinence-only sex education programs instead of proven
comprehensive programs that emphasize safe sex and the use of condoms.
Count 2:
The Bush administration has re-instated the 'gag-rule' policy which restricts foreign organizations that receive US funds
from using their own, non-U.S. funds to provide legal abortion services or even provide accurate medical counseling or referrals
regarding abortion. This policy has led to the closing of reproductive health clinics dependent on international funding in
very poor parts of the world. In many areas, these clinics have also been the only source of HIV/AIDS prevention and care
programs, including the supply of much-needed and life-saving condoms.
Count 3:
The Bush administration and its political operatives have distorted sound science and attempted to suppress medical research
studies in HIV prevention when it conflicts with the ideology of the Christian Right.
Count 4:
The Bush administration has used its political and economic power to coerce other countries into agreements that severely
restrict the manufacture and supply of generic drugs, the only affordable option for most HIV positive people in the Third
World.
Full indictment
Hurricane Katrina
Count 1: Knowing failure of
the Bush administration to adequately maintain and upgrade the levees directly contributed to the foreseeable loss of life
and suffering of many people when Hurricane Katrina struck.
Count 2: Despite foreknowledge
of Hurricane Katrina striking land as a greater than category 3 storm and the devastation that this would cause, the Bush
administration failed to implement an emergency evacuation plan for people who were in the path of the storm and unable to
evacuate the area on their own.
Count 3: The Bush administration neither launched an immediate
rescue operation nor provided the emergency shelter, food and water needed to save peoples’ lives and prevent needless
suffering.
Count 4: Federal authorities blocked the provision of emergency services, including
rescue and provision of food and water on the part other levels of government and private sources despite the obvious need
for this kind of relief.
Count 5: Federal authorities enforced repressive conditions and
eventually carried out an evacuation that separated families, including separating small children from their parents, and
left many people not knowing where their loved ones were located and even if they had survived the storms.
Full indictment
Source:
www.bushcommission.org
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