ROVE!!!
Posted on 07/26/2007 11:21:06 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Thursday issued a subpoena for top White House adviser Karl Rove to compel him to testify about the firing of several U.S. attorneys.
“The evidence shows that senior White House political operatives were focused on the political impact of federal prosecutions and whether federal prosecutors were doing enough to bring partisan voter fraud and corruption cases,” Leahy said. “It is obvious that the reasons given for the firings of these prosecutors were contrived as part of a cover-up and that the stonewalling by the White House is part and parcel of that same effort.”
Leahy issued the subpoenas, one to Rove and one to White House aide Scott Jennings, after consulting with Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), the committee’s ranking member.
“The Bush-Cheney White House continues to place great strains on our constitutional system of checks and balances,” Leahy added. “Not since the darkest days of the Nixon administration have we seen efforts to corrupt federal law enforcement for partisan political gain and such efforts to avoid accountability.”
The move is a further escalation of the constitutional battle between Congress and the White House over whether Bush administration officials must provide testimony and documents to legislative branch investigators.
Leahy said he is not taking this step lightly and only decided to proceed after “[exhausting] every avenue seeking the voluntary cooperation of Karl Rove and J. Scott Jennings.”
The Judiciary Committee chairman concluded that the investigation has “reached a point where the accumulated evidence shows that political considerations factored into the unprecedented firing of at least nine United States attorneys last year.”
In a letter to Rove, Leahy gives the White House official a week to appear before the panel and testify under oath.
“I hope that the White House takes this opportunity to reconsider its blanket claim of executive privilege, especially in light of the testimony that the President was not involved in the dismissals of these U.S. Attorneys,” Leahy said in his letter. “I am left to ask what the White House is so intent on hiding that it cannot even identify the documents, the dates, the authors and recipients that they claim are privileged.”
I’m tired of the President letting this continue.
All Bush has to do is call a press conference and say ‘I fired them.”
Period, end of story. It within his rights as President to fire ANY political appointee, and thats what these people were.
The political ineptness at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue continues...
Arr I can say, Senator Reahy, Rots of Ruck.
Is this supposed to be satire? Have Cheney give the good Senator a call.
The Senate is remiss in not throwing him into the street.
And DU wets their pants in anticipation of another possible trumped-up perjury charge.
Tony Snow
More than 300 executive branch investigations or inquiries; 400 requests for documents, interviews, or testimony; we’ve had more than 550 officials testify; we’ve had more than 600 oversight hearings; 87,000-plus hours spent responding to oversight requests; and 430,000 pages made available to Congress for oversight. That’s pretty significant.
In fact, the 87,000 hours that we mentioned that have been used in document production — that’s equal to more than nine-and-a-half years — and here’s your graphic of the day, ladies and gentlemen — if you took those 430,000 pages and stack them on top of each other, they would reach a height twice that of the executive mansion, itself.
Give him the ‘Cheney ‘ salutation.
This is a total disgrace.
And that would prevent Sen. Leahy from engaging in this stunt, how?
Whatever Leahy. The president can fire anyone who works for him without your permission or advanced knowledge.
And that would prevent Sen. Leahy from engaging in this stunt, how?
The media could then ask Leahy the constitutional basis for his subpeona to ask about a decision wholly at the discretion of the Executive branch.
Would it stop Leahy from being stupid, and acting like the political hack he is? Probably not, but this nonsense is enabled by the Whitehouse refusing to fight back.
Could? You must be joking.
Could? You must be joking.
Fox would ask.
Democrats. Doing the work real Americans won’t do. Subverting their country.
Bush is still suffering from a coma, so don't expect any kind of a fight with the communist party (Democratic nuts).
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