House, Senate Showdown Looming With the White House?

   The U.S. Congress could be heading for a showdown with the White House in the near future over the prosecutor purge that has taken place.

   Congress is set to meet with Attorney General Gonzales in the coming week to talk about his reasoning behind the purge but exactly where and when has not been determined.

  The investigations are continuing by both the House and the Senate.

   Some of the Senate and House lawmakers have met with Fred Fielding ( White House counsel ) over their desire to get their hands on some documents and interviews with some of the White House officials. They wish to speak with Rove, for one. It seems that Fielding put them off by saying that he would get back to them after speaking with Bush about the matter. It's possible that the Bush Crime Family could invoke executive privilege, which would mean war with the legitimate branches of government.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) put it: “Frankly, I don’t care whether Fielding says he’s going to allow people or not. We’ll subpoena the people we want.... If they want to defy the subpoena, then you get into a stonewall situation I suspect they don’t want to have.”

And so this morning, the Senate committee will vote on whether to issue subpoenas to Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers, and William Kelley, a former top aide to Miers.

We'll know tomorrow, it seems, whether they'll have to use them.       Source

   I wonder if Cheney has ordered the Shredder Truck to come by one again?

 

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Gonzales Resigning Will not Be Enough So Who Gets It Next?

   On the George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales prosecutor purge, we get this look at what should be happening to these clowns next, and what may not be happening for some time.

 

by Kagro X at Daily kos

For the balance of this "administration," then, and for the foreseeable future, the serious prosecution of public corruption may be all but impossible. And that is the true measure of the gravity of this crime.

But the crime is more than just a grave one, it is also evidence of a depravity not seen since Nixon. Veteran watchers of Karl Rove's operations will instantly recognize his infamous m.o. in all of this: make your own weakness a strength, and accuse the opposition of doing precisely what you're actually doing behind the scenes. While Republican corruption was running rampant, Rove's machinations made it appear that it was actually Democratic corruption that was the problem. While Republicans at the federal level were literally looting the Treasury, handing out bricks of cash in Iraq, laundering Abramoff's "lobbying" fees, forcing through illegal redistricting plans, jamming phone lines on election day, suppressing the minority vote, etc., Republican prosecutors were digging for any scraps they could find to use against their political opposition at the local level, where they hoped no one would connect the dots, but which would still have a corrosive effect on the public perception of Democrats. And when Republicans were caught in the act, as DeLay was, what was the first thing he accused the Democratic District Attorney of? Conducting a "partisan witch hunt."

The long term effects of this scandal are incalculable. At a time when Republicans are accused of engaging in rampant and systematic public corruption, Rove, Bush and Gonzales have succeeded in making corruption investigations into the same sort of partisan joke that Republicans made impeachment. And as their crimes come to light in the closing days of their "administration" and into the next, they may well have made it impossible for a Democratic successor to actually pursue justice on behalf of the American people, since any such effort will undoubtedly -- and with a lack of shame that shocks the conscience -- be labeled as "partisan revenge."

Heads must roll, and they must roll in numbers.

 

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