Lawsuit Filed Against Bush & Cheney - PNAC Allegations

[complain jane]

Lawsuit Filed in U.S. District Court in Reno Against George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney

WASHINGTON -- January 18 -- A lawsuit was filed late Friday January 14th in the U.S. District Court in Reno, Nevada against President Bush and Vice President Cheney. The lawsuit alleges that both defendants have acted outside the scope of their job description in waging a war against Iraq. The complaint alleges that both defendants and others working within the White House and Defense Department have covertly implemented a white paper called “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” as presented by the Project for the New American Century or PNAC in September, 2000 two months before the murky elections of that year. Among the persons signing the paper were Richard Cheney and Jeb Bush. While the paper was published on the internet, implementation of it by the White House has been in secret.

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http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0118-04.htm

On edit: Had to shorten article title for thread title, it was too long

[juajen]

1. Well, that was very interesting, to say the least.

DU legal eagles need to chime in. Will this be dismissed or become a viable lawsuit? If viable, can others join to make it a class action lawsuit?

[babsbunny]

2. Hopefully

this law suit will not be dimissed. I only want hope.

[corbett]

4. Gonzales Wants Chimp To Be Immune From All Prosecution

In his Senate confirmation hearing, he deliberately sidestepped a question about one of the provisions in the now infamous torture memo about insulating the president from all prosecution during wartime.

[complain jane]

7. Does that mean that the next president will be immune

if he/she tortures George W. Bush during wartime?

[corbett]

16. Good Question!

I like your thinking!

It depends - if the next president (which will be Kerry) has a lapdog for AG like Gonzales, then, yes. However, since Kerry is a statesman, he won't nominate anyone for AG who wipes his ass with the constitution.

[Blue Gardener]

18. All prosecution from within the US?

Or could another country nail him for war crimes?

[H2O Man]

10. The first issue is

to consider what the goal of filing the suit was. My suspicion is that it was to bring the spot light of publicity to an issue that has been used to keep the public in the dark. And in that sense, it may accomplish its goal.

The case is likely to be dismissed at the level it had been filed. That doesn't have to be considered a bad thing. At issue may be how it is dismissed: does a court leave a door open, or shut it completely.

What is perhaps the most important is will it lead to members of the House using it to begin an investigation into the shadowy relationship between the administration and an unelected group deciding US policy.

[Zynx]

3. Sorry, but this doesn't have a chance in hell

The President is allowed to consult with whoever he damn well wants to, even if they are scum.

Doesn't matter if he had daily meetings at the AEI. It would be perfectly legal.

EDIT: This is similar to the Cheney Energy Taskforce meetings. SCOTUS was pretty clear there that the Executive Branch can solicit advice from anyone it likes.

[Clark2008]

8. Not if the motives are treasonous

And, judging from the PNAC's motives, I'd say they put Israel above the United States.

Not ragging on Israel, here - but it's treason to put one's on country at risk at the beheast of another.

Edited because I shouldn't type and eat at the same time.

[snippy]

11. The Constitution provides the remedy for that situation. Impeachment.

This lawsuit will be dismissed.

[Clark2008]

12. But, the lawsuit could shed light on...

what the hell am I saying?
The cWHOREporate media won't report on this.

:eyes:

[bpilgrim]

13. doesn't matter

we need to clog the courts :bounce:

if he gets sued on WAR-CRIMES (PREVENTIVE WAR/TORTURE) the neoCONs LOSE.

peace

[complain jane]

5. If nothing else maybe it will bring some attention to PNAC

[Old and In the Way]

6. I remember when public policy was debated in the open.

Instead of being made by a few white men bought and paid for by Big Oil.
No wonder they need to control the voting machines and process....if they ever lose their firewall of syncophantic Republican rubber stampers, they will begin to understand the word 'accountability'.

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. Here's link to the site of man who filed suit

http://www.dougwallace.com/

At least he is doing something in which he believes.

[napi21]

15. I checked out his site. He asked for help sending a letter to the court.

It's attaches the last page of the photocopy of the court filing. It's takes a long time to load, so Here is a copy. I'm going to send one, and I think you should too. He said he would love to have the court receive over 100,000 letters. I think we should help him.



Chief Judge Howard McKibben
United States District Court
District of Northern Nevada
400 S. Virginia Street
Reno, Nevada

To Honorable Judge McKibben,

This letter, although in standard format, expresses my/our personal approval and support of legal efforts of Mr. Doug Wallace to expose and bring to trial George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney for an injunction against any further implementation of the strategy
plan under the Project for the New American Century or PNAC.

We are a peace loving nation and have always stood up for the equal rights of all persons in the world. We are opposed to any effort to further enlarge the dominant power of the United States and indeed seek to bring our nation back into line as a brotherhood of nations.

Please accept this letter as an indication of my/our desire to be among the class of citizens
of plaintiffs for which Mr. Wallace is defending the Constitution.


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- Street Address

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City State

[Moderator]

14. moving to GD

This is a press release, not a source for LBN.

[Just Me]

17. Wow. I wonder what authority he is citing to file this thing.

I'm having trouble peering at the complaint.

He is a courageous man!!!