Subpoenas Issued In Attorney " Purge " Scandal

   The first subpoenas to be issued in conjunction with the U.S. attorneys " purge " investigation have been sent to Sara Taylor ( ex White House political director )  and at the same time it was announced that the House Judiciary Committee will be issuing a subpoena to ex former White House counsel Harriet Miers.

   In another first for this investigation both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Judiciary Committee will be issuing subpoenas for some documents from the White House.    Source

The committees have issued subpoenas for officials and documents from the Justice Department. The committees are investigating whether the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year were politically motivated and whether the White House was involved.

Taylor resigned from her White House job a couple of weeks ago. Miers resigned her White House post in January. President Bush has nominated Miers to serve on the Supreme Court but later withdrew her nomination. A day earlier, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said that the last batch of e-mails provided to investigators by the Justice Department, "shows again that there was no wrongdoing in the replacement of U.S. attorneys."

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been authorized to subpoena several current and former White House officials including Taylor, Miers and Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser.    CNN

  Don't look for any subpoena to be issued to Karl Rove as of yet because the committees are still building a case against him, or so they claim.

"We want to build up and get documents to have basis to ask questions of Rove," one of the sources said. "It's the way you do it in any investigation."

Having said that, the source said the reality is that this will end up in a constitutional showdown and they will never get a chance to talk to any of the White House witnesses.

  Begin impeachment proceedings against both Bush and Cheney and that will avoid any kind of constitutional showdown with these crooks.

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