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| Leahy Intends to Subpoena Bush Officials | |
| 2007-03-19 | |
The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman said Sunday he intends to subpoena White House officials involved in ousting federal prosecutors and is dismissing anything short of their testimony in public. The Bush White House was expected to announce early this week whether it will let political strategist Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers and other officials testify or will seek to assert executive privilege in preventing their appearance.
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, the top Republican on the committee, said he had a long talk with Fielding on Friday and was reserving judgment. Specter said he would like to see Rove and Miers' open testimony because there were numerous precedents for it. "I want to see exactly what the White House response is," Specter said. "Maybe the White House will come back and say, 'We'll permit them to be interviewed and we'll give them all the records.'" | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Here's more from March 14th Schumer: the shadow AG Clarice Feldman Lost in the kerfuffle about the Gonzales firings of 8 US Attorneys is the fact that Chuck Schumer has a hidden agenda: acting not only as the Senator from New York but as well as the Attorney General of the U.S. He pushed for the appointment of a Special Counsel, wrote at least 2 letters to the Attorney General resquesting updates on the investigation and demanding action on the CIA referral letter respecting the public identification of Plame. He obtained from Deputy AG Comey the promise to appoint a special counsel and looked the other way when one was appointed outside the statutory and constitutional framework for such appointments. Both Comey and Fitzgerald were well-known to him at the time having worked in the Southern District of New York . If he succeeds in forcing Gonzales to resign, Gonzales' Deputy will undoubtedly take over. That deputy, McNulty, like Comey and Fitzgerald, also comes from the office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and is close to Schumer and his former colleagues. |
| Posted by: Sherry 2007-03-19 15:35 |
| #4 There's a Schumer possible connection in this also. From The American Spectator "It's becoming increasingly apparent that the long knives that took out those U.S. Attorneys were coming from McNulty's office," says a Senate leadership staffer, who points to recent revelations that the DAG's chief of staff, Michael Elston, made what some in Washington interpreted to be threatening or intimidating phone calls to the outgoing USAs. Elston has denied that those types of calls were made. "McNulty doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut and his head down," says a Republican staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee. "The amount of harm he has done to his own reputation by impugning the reputations of others is remarkable." McNulty has made no secret within his circle of political allies that he has larger ambitions than being Gonzales's deputy. "If I had to guess, he views himself as the logical replacement for Gonzales should he be forced out," says an acquaintance who says he's familiar with McNulty's thinking. "You have Schumer calling for Gonzales to resign, and who's close to Schumer? Former DAG Jim Comey and [special prosecutor and U.S. Attorney] Pat Fitzgerald. Both of them are close to McNulty, and if you look at who got pushed out, they're USAs who weren't part of the Comey/Fitzgerald/McNulty crowd." and I read the other day (can't find it now) that with the AG resignation, that would put McNulty in charge, as a good friend of Chucky Schumer. |
| Posted by: Sherry 2007-03-19 15:27 |
| #3 Can we please cut Leahy's tongue out and use it as a doorstop? This man is clinically insane. I hope someone with a little common sense sees this as destructive to BOTH parties, and puts a stop to it. I don't hold out any great hopes, however. Neither party seems to have anyone of great character. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-03-19 13:55 |
| #2 This is all just another dust-up to get to Karl Rove. They got Libby on perjury, now they are still going for Rove. |
| Posted by: Sherry 2007-03-19 10:50 |
| #1 D *** pesky new math again - eight fired by Bush for non-productivity = 93 fired by Clinton for nuthin save not being appointed, FOR LIFE, by himself; + not counting the many underlings which Bill also fired, or had fired via Janet Reno. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-03-19 01:52 |