"Hey, Waxman! Your wife says it's only this big, at BEST!"
Posted on 04/26/2007 11:45:29 AM PDT by Froufrou
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she has already answered the questions she has been subpoenaed to answer before a congressional committee and suggested she is not inclined to comply with the order.
Rice said she would respond by mail to questions from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the Bush administration's prewar claims about Saddam Hussein seeking weapons of mass destruction, but signaled she would not appear in person.
"I am more than happy to answer them again in a letter," she told reporters in Oslo, where she is attending a meeting of NATO foreign ministers.
The comments were her first reaction to a subpoena issued on Wednesday by the committee chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
Rice said she respected the oversight function of the legislative branch, but maintained she had already testified in person and under oath about claims that Iraq had sought uranium from Africa during her confirmation hearing for the job of secretary of state.
"I addressed these questions, almost the same questions, during my confirmation hearing," she said. "This is an issue that has been answered and answered and answered."
Rice noted that she had been serving as President Bush's national security adviser during the period covered by the panel's questions and stressed the administration's position that presidential aides not confirmed by the Senate cannot be forced to testify before Congress under the doctrine of executive privilege.
"This all took place in my role as national security adviser," she said. "There is a constitutional principle. There is a separation of powers and advisers to the president under that constitutional principle are not generally required to go and testify in Congress.
"So, I think we have to observe and uphold the constitutional principle, but I also observe and uphold the obligation of Congress to conduct its oversight role, I respect that. But I think I have more than answered these questions, and answered them directly to Congressman Waxman."
Rice declined to respond when asked if she would absolutely refuse to testify under subpoena.
Her spokesman, Sean McCormack, said later that no final decision had been made about Rice appearing before the committee.
Waxman's committee voted 21-10 on Wednesday to subpoena Rice despite the State Department's insistence that the questions have already been answered and that the doctrine of executive privilege .
The congressman has complained for weeks that Rice and the State Department have failed to respond to questions about the claim that Saddam Hussein had tried to by uranium from Niger
Translation: Rice to surrender monkey democrats — “ Up Yours”
Good for you Condi!
Waxman complain? Nawwww.
With a red hot poker.
"Hey, Waxman! Your wife says it's only this big, at BEST!"
I think Condi just told Waxman, nicely mind you, to stuff his subpoena up one of his gargantuan nostrils.
That's gonna stick in their craw!!! You go, Condi! You got more ba...er, guts than ANY of those men on that panel!!!
She handled those questions just as well during her confirmation hearings. All the Dems are doing is harrassing her.
But, that’s what they’re good at.
The Imperial ‘rat Congress of the 1980’s came to an end when Oliver North made that Iran-Contra Committee look foolish. The ‘rats have been bitter for twenty years that their attempt to take over US Foreign Policy from Capitol Hill was thwarted.
Looks like they are trying again. There will be calls to fire Condi over this. In their hatred of GWB and lust for power the ‘rats are perfectly willing to destroy the Presidency as an institution.
Patience. The President will appear soon to veto that piece of garbage soon to appear on his desk. I look forward to hearing him speak.
Last time I saw him was a quick glimpse on Fox news this morning. The TV was muted so I don't know what it was all about, but he appeared to be playing an instrument of some kind with a Caribbean calypso band. Kinda odd behavior for a president of the US if you ask me, which nobody did BTW.
Apparently, they are going to drag things out until Tuesday, which is the 4 year anniversary of the President’s “Mission Accomplished” speech—read, they want to humiliate the President two-fold by reminding the public (via the MSM) of Bush’s ‘arrogance’ and now his ‘turning his back’ on the troops by vetoing this POS legislation...
Karma. What goes around comes around. The Democrats will pay for treating the troops, our President and America this way.
This is going to turn around and bite them all on the butt! >:-(
Take your subpoena and...
From your lips to God’s ears.
She obviously has something to hide.
Just wait, you’ll see.
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