The House Will Allow Subpoenas In Attorney Riff

CNN     March 21, 2007

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Democrats voted Wednesday to give their leaders the authority to force White House officials to testify on the firings of U.S. attorneys.

President Bush on Tuesday offered to let Karl Rove, his top political adviser, and former White House counsel Harriet Miers give unsworn, off-the-record testimony.

A House Judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday rejected the offer on a voice vote. Democrats contend the lack of transcripts under the Bush plan would prevent them from challenging any inconsistencies in testimony.

On Tuesday, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Bush's offer was unacceptable.

"It is not helpful to be telling the Senate how to do our investigation," Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, said in a written statement.

The House Judiciary subcommittee vote Wednesday authorizes issuing of subpoenas, not the serving of them. That action would come later.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on the same issue Thursday.

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  Bush has said, "It would be regrettable if they choose to go down the road of issuing subpoenas."

   Oh really? Who would it be  regrettable for?  My guess would be for Bush and the rest of the White House and you can also throw in the underlings of Gonzales who helped with the " purge ' knowing full well that is was the wrong thing to do.

  Bush has got to be an ass if he thinks that the Democrats or anyone else with an I.Q. will just let Rove and the rest come in and testify without having some sort of record of the conversation. I guess that Bush and Cheney have gotten so used to hiding and destroying so much shit that they think that it is the normal thing to do.

  It is pretty obvious that the White house has alot to hide if they are so afraid of letting their hoods testify under oath and behind closed doors. These request pretty much say " guilty ".

   Bush will now run this crap through the courts and hope that he can drag this case out till he is out of office when he will think that he, and the others,  are safe from prosecution.

   I hope that he hasn't made any vacation plans for out of the states.

 

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