Reid Resolution Fails In 48-50 Vote, Senate Will Subpoena DoJ Officials

Senate Resolution

By BarbinMD

on Iraq

No surprises here.  The Reid Resolution to require a troop withdrawal beginning in 120 days and with a completion goal of March 31, 2008, failed 48-50.  For those keeping score at home, those opposing were the 49 Republicans and Joe Lieberman.     Source

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    The Senate Judiciary Committee  voted to subpoena five officials from the Justice Department just in case Gonzales changes his mind about letting the officials testify on their own. They did postpone a vote on whether to subpoena Karl Rove,  William Kelley and Harriet Miers. Source

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Bush, Gonzales Pushed To Shut Down Inquiry That Probably Would Have Targeted Gonzales

By Murray Waas

Shortly before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales advised President Bush last year on whether to shut down a Justice Department inquiry regarding the administration's warrantless domestic eavesdropping program, Gonzales learned that his own conduct would likely be a focus of the investigation, according to government records and interviews.

Bush personally intervened to sideline the Justice Department probe in April 2006 by taking the unusual step of denying investigators the security clearances necessary for their work.  Source

 

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