[GeoPie]

Of course she refuses. She needs control and also this aids in her not sitting in the witness chair.

[Steven W.]

The point is she has to sit in the witness chair and testify. The commission needs to know when this memo was written and under what level of understanding or coordination it was disemminated. We need to know if the complaints from those agents in the field who were so frustrated by her actions ever made it back to her and, if so, why Reno was never told. The reasons why she has to testify are OBVIOUS. The reasons why the commission are playing CYA are obvious, too - their credibility is lost and the only way to restore it is to put her on the stand. But as soon as she's placed on the stand she has to recuse herself from the committee. Thus another stonewall by Gorelick and her defenders.

[CharlieOK1]

Daschle knew what he was doing appointing her...