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House Oversight Committee Subpoenas Justice Department for Documents in Valerie Plame Case

Submitted by AmyW on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 12:36pm.

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By Amy Weiss

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a subpoena to Attorney General Michael Mukasey Monday, requesting reports of FBI interviews with President Bush and Vice President Cheney and additional documents pertaining to the leak of CIA Agent Valerie Plame's identity.

The subpoena follows a June 3 letter from committee chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) to Attorney General Mukasey, asking for the documents and a June 11 response from Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Keith B. Nelson stating:

As we stated in our letter of January 18, 2008, your request for reports on interviews with the President and Vice President, the two constitutional officers of the Executive Branch, raises serious separation of powers and heightened confidentiality concerns. Although these reports will not be made available to the Committee, we remain open to any reasonable suggestions on how to provide information that the Committee believes it may need.

The request from the committee comes in light of "new information from the FBI interview of I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby and the recent disclosures by Scott McClellan," Waxman's letter said.

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Submitted by SpikeHeels on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 6:08pm.

The Justice Department and the White House will ignore Congress and the spineless Democrats will sit on their hands and do nothing AGAIN. Bush is going to run out the clock and then fly off into the sunset with a smirk on his face.

Bush must have gotten some really good dirt on the Democrats in Congress with his illegal wiretaps. It's kind of obvious because the Democrats refuse to have any real investigations about anything. Laws have been broken, the constitution has been shredded and subpoenas are being ignored and Congress is doing nothing. Why are we still paying their outrageous salaries?

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Submitted by Rob Moitoza on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 11:29pm.
Great point. We keep complaining about congress' refusal to cut off war funding, but WE'RE the ones writing the checks. Too bad we can't organize a huge tax strike and just cut off the funds ourselves. As for impeachment, they just ain't gonna do it. So much for democracy.
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