Posted on 01/26/2009 4:17:40 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Rove subpoenaed by Conyers By: John Bresnahan and Andy Barr January 26, 2009 06:31 PM EST
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) has subpoenaed Karl Rove, the former top political advisor to President George W. Bush, to question what Rove knows about “politicization” of the Justice Department.
The Senate Judiciary Committee had subpoenaed Rove during the last Congress, but relying on an executive privilege claim by Bush, Rove refused to appear.
Conyers had previously subpoenaed former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten, Bush former White House chief of staff, seeking any information they had. Conyers is also seeking White House documents related to the firing of nine U.S. attorneys.
After the White House refused to comply with the subpoenas, and Miers refused to even appear before the committee to answer the subpoena, the House Judiciary Committee sued. A federal judge backed the committee in a major win for Conyers and House Democrats, but resolution of the case has been delayed by the changeover in administrations. President Obama has vowed to comply with congressional subpoenas.
“I have said many times that I will carry this investigation forward to its conclusion, whether in Congress or in court, and today’s action is an important step along the way,” Conyers said.
Rove has until Feb. 2 to respond to the subpoena.
Conyers added: “Change has come to Washington, and I hope Karl Rove is ready for it. After two years of stonewalling, it’s time for him to talk.”
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So it starts.
Is that what Obama is now doing?
He should tell them he will use the Hillary defense.
Rove is a private citizen now...he should just tell Conyers..
“NUTS”, go suck on a lemon Johnny Boy!~
Oh please Conyers. *Barf*
Conyers—the poster child for a mandatory congressional retirement age.
BUMP!
Bipartisanship. Reaching across the aisle. This is what Bob Barr, Ron Paul, Peggy Noonan support.
I hope Rove shows up. I hope he answers absolutely every question with, “I don’t recall”.
He should tell them he will use the Hillary defense.What is the Hillary defense?
>>Rove is a private citizen now...he should just tell Conyers..
“NUTS”, go suck on a lemon Johnny Boy!~<<
If people who work for the President can’t be subpoenaed either while they are in office or while they are private citizens that seems to be a recipe for executive wrong doing.
“I don’t recall”
“Change has come to Washington, and I hope Karl Rove is ready for it. After two years of stonewalling, it’s time for him to talk.”
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Well, sadly you gutter-crawling POS, the change we needed did not happen. You being thrown out of Washington would have been good CHANGE. This country does not need crooked, corrupt politician trouble-makers like you. You are USELESS.
(There - I feel better now.) I have been listening to that racist POS for way too long, and so has the rest of the country.
Rove will have the idiot for lunch.
Do away with that aisle. Congresscritters should be seated in alphabetical order like kindergarteners everywhere.
This is a mis-match.
FYI: Bush/Cheney/Rove investigators John Conyers and Maxine Waters each have links to a group calling for the armed overthrow of the U.S. government: Revolutionary Communist Party/World Can’t Wait—Drive Out the Bush Regime.
Details at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2172287/posts?page=8#8
If BO is at one end of the intellectual scale, the dullard Conyers is anchoring the other. Were it not for their skin pigment, they would not be holding their offices.
No chance. Rove can ignore this.
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