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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Iraq Not Meeting U.S. Oil Company Benchmarks

  In this surprise of a story, the New York Times says that the leaders in Iraq have haven't reached agreements on almost every law that the United States have set as benchmarks even though the Iraqi government is getting some pressure from our Congress, military commanders and from the White House.

    As is usual with this article from the times and others, the problems with the Iraqis not meeting Bush's benchmarks seem to put the oil law at the top of the list. This sham oil law is the first thing that is mentioned when referring to the Iraqis failure to get anything done.

    As you know, progress reports on the status of Iraq are due out in three months and we now have Iraqi and U.S. officials saying that they are questioning whether any of the substantial laws ( oil ) will be passed before the end of the year.

   The delusional White House ( Bush ) seem to think that getting the oil law passed will show the American citizens that progress is being made in Iraq. that is not progress unless you happen to be ExxonMobile, BP, or a few other big time players in this scam. Progress in Iraq for the American citizen would be less of our troops getting placed into body bags. That is progress!

Kurds have blocked a vote in Parliament on a new oil law. Shiite clerics have stymied an American-backed plan for reintegrating former Baathists into government. Sunnis are demanding that a constitutional review include more power for the next president.

For the handful of party leaders with the power to make deals, the promise of compromise now carries less allure than the possibility for domination. Long-suppressed Shiites and Kurds now see total victory within their grasp. Previous American benchmarks like elections have failed to bring peace and, after four years of unfulfilled promises, bloodshed and sprawling chaos, once wary glances have become cold, unblinking stares.

  Real progress in Iraq would come first by throwing Bush and Cheney out of the White House and into the World Court. That is progress!

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