Bush Orders Former White House Counsel Harriet Miers Not to Testify in Attorney Firings Probe

AP ^ | July 11, 2007 | Staff

[Anti-Bubba182]

President Bush ordered his former White House counsel, Harriet Miers, to defy a congressional subpoena and refuse to testify Thursday before a House panel investigating U.S. attorney firings.

"Ms. Miers has absolute immunity from compelled congressional testimony as to matters occurring while she was a senior adviser to the president," White House Counsel Fred Fielding wrote in a letter to Miers' lawyer, George T. Manning.

Manning, in turn, notified committee chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., that Miers would not show up Thursday to answer questions about the White House role in the firings of eight federal prosecutors over the winter.

Conyers, who had previously said he would consider pursuing criminal contempt citations against anyone who defied his committee' subpoenas, revealed the letters after former White House political director Sara Taylor testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Taylor said she knew of no involvement by the president in the firings of the U.S. attorneys.

She irked senators by refusing to answer many questions from a panel investigating whether the firings were politically motivated. She said she was bound by Bush's position that White House conversations were protected by executive privilege........."

[Anti-Bubba182]

It really is a shame that Conyers is in the House.

[True Republican Patriot]

Lets Investigate Conyers, that is a rich fertile field one can be quite sure of!

[samtheman]

It’s really a shame that Bush doesn’t get more colorful in his response to congress. What’s he got to lose? Why not tell them to take a flying leap at a rolling donut. His approval ratings would double overnight.

[sirchtruth]

She irked senators by refusing to answer many questions from a panel investigating whether the firings were politically motivated. She said she was bound by Bush's position that White House conversations were protected by executive privilege........."

LOL! Conyers, Go Pound Sand!

[RC2]

I totally agree with you. He has nothing to loose. The President could have fired the prosecutors because he didn’t like the color of their shorts, which probably had brown streaks on them anyway.

[VRW Conspirator]

And yet we do not here anything about WHY they were fired. THAT is the cover up that the Dems are trying to suppress (i.e Dem voter fraud).

[Ramius]

I wonder what could ~possibly~ be more protected and privileged than communications between a President and the White House Counsel.

What Conyers is doing should be punishable. No Congress has the lawful power to do what he’s trying to do. He’s abusing his position.

[taxesareforever]

She irked senators by refusing to answer many questions from a panel investigating whether the firings were politically motivated.

Irked because of her refusal or irked because she didn't answer the way they wanted her to?

[samtheman]

It’s not just the commie-traitors covering up the story of why those attorneys were fired. It’s Bush himself. Why doesn’t he just TELL the American people why they were fired? In very clear language. With maximum criticism of the commie-traitors who run the other party.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Or even maybe that these eight US Attys put up opposition to Bush’s whole NAU anti-sovereignty actions......I don’t know that, it is just most certainly a possibility since Bush and his crew are bound and determined to liquidate America as we have known and loved it.

[strange1]

...said Specter, R-Pa. "You might have been on safer legal ground if you'd said absolutely nothing."

And there you have it. In regards to Comrade Conyers and his ilk...say nothing! Well maybe___ Phock yourself congressman!

[advertising guy]

Conyers is a member of the Socialist Black Caucus.
I swear.

[strange1]

... He’s self-abusing his position.

a little more accurate. What disgust me is he reperesents my sate. Total embarrassment.

[blade_tenner]

Or even maybe that these eight US Attys put up opposition to Bush’s whole NAU anti-sovereignty actions...

Carol Lam seemed to have had a 100% conviction rate for illegal immigration cases, despite Issa's complaint that she wasn't tough enough on border security. Think you may be onto something here..

[VRW Conspirator]

Or even maybe that these eight US Attys put up opposition to Bush’s whole NAU anti-sovereignty actions......

Fair enough. Yet I still do not hear why they were fired. I sense a lopsided story. Blame Bush & Co. or blame the establishment media - my money is that the MSM is covering for the Dems and real story won't be told until no one cares.

BTW, sovereignty was always on a slippery slope since the founding of this great country. State sovereignty is half neutered and national sovereignty is eroded. IMO, it is a matter of which party will sell the parcels of sovereignty faster/slower. (thank you for your service)