Posted on 03/21/2007 8:03:55 AM PDT by yoe
U.S. President George Bush has OK'd appearances by adviser Karl Rove and other White House figures before Congress on the firing of eight federal prosecutors.
However, Rove, Harriet Miers, deputy White House counsel William Kelley and White House aide Scott Jennings would not be made to testify under oath, The Hill reported Tuesday.
Members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees have said they want to subpoena administration officials in their investigation into the firing of the U.S. attorneys. Both House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., and Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said they were disappointed in the White House offer.
White House counsel Fred Fielding said Rove, Miers, Kelley and Jennings could be queried only about "communications between the White House and persons outside the White House concerning the request for resignations of the U.S. attorneys in question; and communication between the White House and Members of Congress concerning those requests," The Hill said.
He also said the interviews would be conducted in private and no transcript or subsequent testimony would be offered.
It didnt take the Democrats long to start tying up the government with phony BS investigations.
Wasting time and money,our money.
It was only a matter of time. Everything this Administration does will be criminalized. Soon, there will be hearings on why the toilets are being flushed in the White House and were those flushings "politically motivated" or motivated by something else.
The toilet runs too long and then "Flapper-Gate" starts up?
WH is surrendering again.... just taking a little longer to bring up the white flag.
"WH is surrendering again."
They have such great support.
I'll happily support them when they decide to grow a pair for domestic issues. Dubya's fine with 'em on foreign policy, but domestically they roll over time after time.
I look in every piece I read about this so-called "scandal" to see if the author has mentioned the Clintons mass dismissal in 1993 of all US attorneys....none do. Wonder why....
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