WASHINGTON, June 28, 2008
House Seeks Bush Transcripts In CIA Case
Judiciary Comm. Also Subpoenas Cheney Interview Over Outing Of Agent Responsible For Halting Spread Of WMDs
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Signed by Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., the subpoena requests all documents from the office of former Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald relating to interviews of President Bush, Cheney and their aides that were conducted outside the presence of the grand jury investigating the leak.
The subpoena requests similar accounts of interviews with former presidential adviser Karl Rove; I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff; former White House spokesman Scott McClellan; former presidential counselor Dan Bartlett; and former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has subpoenaed some of the same documents but has been rebuffed by the Justice Department, according to a letter released Friday by the chairman of that panel, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
Conyers also subpoenaed Justice Department documents on a broad range of other matters, including a phone jamming investigation in New Hampshire, the replacement of a U.S. attorney in Minnesota and the activities of the department's Civil Rights Division.
Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said the agency was reviewing the subpoena.
The action was the latest effort by congressional Democrats to shed light on the precise roles, if any, that Mr. Bush, Cheney and their aides may have played in the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA identity.
State Department official Richard Armitage first revealed Plame's CIA identity to columnist Robert Novak, who used Rove as a confirming source for a 2003 article. Around that time Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, was criticizing Bush's march to war in Iraq.
Libby, who also was involved in the leak, was convicted of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI. Last July, Bush commuted Libby's 2 1/2-year sentence, sparing him from serving any prison time.
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See all 58 CommentsYEAH !!! perfect!!! Two worthless POS'' Bush and convicted felon scooter!! The epitome of failure.
how lovely :}
Very simple really.
Very simple really.
Posted by slim1h2o at 09:53 AM : Jun 28, 2008
+ re
Impeachment is too easy for these two, they need to be tried in a criminal court for war crimes and how they took a country down a path of destruction, If ever there were two bumpkins who needs to be convicted it is Bush and Dart Vader Cheney, and Karl Rove, and Andy Card who got scared early, and ran back to Mass. with God knows what documents, and Karl Rove went back to safety in Texas with a briefcase in hand, good luck Congress these two are the super evaders. No information will be forthcoming from these scoundrels.
Posted by zoe2006 at 09:58 AM : Jun 28, 2008
Tell me how this Tom Delay is still writing books and making money hand over fist and walking around with all these indictments, and not tried yet, give me a break Texas. Daddy Bush and little Jr. and Rove keeping you on the street.
Bush, etc when facing impeachment charges has no executive immunity.
Impeach,then jail time, and take away the Bush family fortune. And then maybe justice will be served.
Maybe our hard earned tax money might find its way back into our pockets. Doubtful though.
But it''s a start!
Maybe our hard earned tax money might find its way back into our pockets. Doubtful though.
But it''''s a start!
Posted by slim1h2o at 10:34 AM : Jun 28, 2008
+ report abus
You may be right Slim I just want them to be punished any way we can for all they did to us, and are still doing they do not even know why the the gas is so high, want a bet.
He''ll still be screaming "Executive privilege" when they escort him to the door of the White House in 2009. That is, of course, if he decides to leave.
Posted by starleo14672 at 10:43 AM : Jun 28, 2008
Punishment and justice is what we are all about, in The U.S. Thats what we should be looking for, at least thats what I''m looking for, and according to your posts in the past, I suspect thats what you''re looking for too. But there is no way we will get true justice though. Just some elists version of it.
But we can try!
Even if he doesn''t go to jail, which he ought to, he still can''t pardon anyone.
Posted by nrgmizer at 11:27 AM : Jun 28, 2008
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I don%u2019t think it has ever been attempted, But I see no reason why any pardon granted to a person convicted and sentenced for a crime should not be reversed if the president himself is later proven to be complicit in the crime or crimes the pardoned was convicted for
Our Republicon obstructionist Congress will not do anything.
They plan on doing what they do until they are removed from power, that was the plan.
The payola is too great, the pockets are full...
Being above the law and wiping your @ss with the Constitution is not an "executive privilage". I hope that Bush learns this when he''s sent to jail.
Posted by jn122736 at 11:43 AM : Jun 28, 2008
There is VERY strong Legal History to what you say. IF the "President" is later found to have been a co-conspirator in the crime itself then the Pardon could well be void. It would in effect be a criminal act to cover another criminal act.
You gotta love when the dems throw red meat to thier constituents ... and they run with it .. It is common knowledge within the democratic party that there will be NO IMPEACHMENT ... and most of the party leaders have said just that ..
What is ironic is these are the same democrats that voted overwhelmingly for EVERYTHING bush has sought ... the war, wiretaps, etc ...
So while many of you yearn for justice, the same folks that should be watching out for you are the same wolves watching the henhouse ...
It aint gonna happen .. but its great fodder for the message boards ...
Posted by SgtRDS-E4
He doesn''''t have that power does he?
Posted by nrgmizer at 11:58 AM : Jun 28, 2008
Yes he does. The only thing is will the people stand for it and will the military back him up. Personally I think he might be willing to try it even though there''d be a lynch mob outside of the White House if he does.
The Dumbocrats had nothing, have nothing, and they NEVER will get anything out of this.
Posted by skyk at 12:02 PM : Jun 28, 2008"
Didn''t see that happen with old Billy Clinton. Look at the scores of people he pardoned that were linked DIRECTLY back to him.
Legal history my arse.
Legal history my arse.
Posted by DemWatcher at 01:11 PM : Jun 28, 2008
Who in the Federal Government was convicted of a federal crime did Clinton pardon?
You gotta love when the dems throw red meat to thier constituents ... and they run with it .. It is common knowledge within the democratic party that there will be NO IMPEACHMENT ... and most of the party leaders have said just that ..
What is ironic is these are the same democrats that voted overwhelmingly for EVERYTHING bush has sought ... the war, wiretaps, etc ...
So while many of you yearn for justice, the same folks that should be watching out for you are the same wolves watching the henhouse ...
It aint gonna happen .. but its great fodder for the message boards ...
Posted by dowjones20k at 12:20 PM : Jun 28, 2008
Red meat from this Administration of ChickenHawks!!!
Posted by downsteamjim at 10:41 AM : Jun 28, 2008
Al Queda in Washington is hard at work.
Is that the reason for Cheney and those secret meetings with Big Oil and al Queda??
"We need an energy bill that encourages consumption." George W Bush - Trenton, N.J., Sept. 23, 2002
Posted by zoe2006
And if your point is that no democrats or thier operatives have been convicted .. your sadly mistaken ... some may not have been to trial yet .. Uhhh Resko, Jeffers and others, but rest assured dems are just as complicit as Repubs in this corrupt enviroment ..
We have a corrupt system .. and until we implement term limits for ALL elected public servants they will only continue to reward themselves and thier family memebrs at the expense of taxpayers ..
So for anyone to be content with the current politcal system is hypocracy ... and pitiful ... leave the affiliation alone and look at the big picture.
"We need an energy bill that encourages consumption." George W Bush - Trenton, N.J., Sept. 23, 2002
Posted by IOWEIGN
Seems that most democrats agree with bush ... having lived long enough to remember the 1979 oil embargo and all the calls for a comprehensive energy policy .. it has been decades for this political football .. and BOTH parties are in it for the money .. whether it be from oil companies or environmental groups ..
The American public is being held hostage by these egotisitcal, pompous A S S E S .. and for whatever reason we continue to elect the same brood to congress ... why?
If indeed the American voter wants change .. change begins in the congress ... and any presidential candidate who advocates for change is pulling the wool over uninformed voters who are too stupid to figure out what or who needs to be replaced ..
Bush, Cheney, Hastert, Cornyn, Hutchison, etc.
Now if you want a real person who has been there--------McCain, Webb, Murtha, Dole, Bentsen, Inoyue, etc
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Anyone want to bet that W will invoke "executive privilege" for the 1,234,438,678th time?
It is hard to believe that there is ANYBODY in the world (not certified as brain-dead) who doesn''t understand the legacy of DickNBush: the most corrupt, criminal, lying, deceitful, incompetent, secretive, arrogant, mean spirited, un-Constitutional, despotic, maniacal government ever - run by the WORST PRESIDENT EVER and the WORST VICE PRESIDENT EVER.
In fact, Dumbya isn''t just the worst president in American history. He is one of the worst leaders of a major nation in the history of the world. Banana republic dictators and the Myanmar junta show more empathy for their citizens than does W.
And yet, the Dems want to give us something even worse: a Kerry-like shallow, arrogant, platitude-spouting, inexperienced, elitist, gas-bag who is so mentally deficient from extensive drug use he even has to plagiarize his hollow platitudes, and who hijacked the nomination with fewer votes than Hillary received.
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"Take off and Nuke the Site from Orbit".....
"It''s the only way to be sure"......
-Ripley-
(Aliens)
How delicious!
Dumbarses.
I will be running for president in 2012.
Ill see to it that there is a chicken in every garage.
He Can ONLY watch !
A TRUE Shrubbie ! Grand Ole Pervert ! Greedy Oil Pig!
A Founding GOP Sect Member,..A BIGOT,A Pervert,Brainless ,a FOLLOWER of Rush Limpdicck !
Hope He Has No Children,...His sandbox already has One Huge A$$ W Hole !
I agree
I agree
Posted by starleo14672 at 09:31 PM : Jun 28, 2008
Ripley had the right answer
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Posted by starleo14672
The trial is already fixed by the Bushwacker''s U.S. Supreme Court perverts. Remember, the child molestors on the bench said no death for child predators. So if the old perverts get caught they only serve minimum time at the Hilton.
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