Bush Counsel Called 9/11 Panelist Before Clarke Testified

[kskiska]

By Dana Milbank and Dan Eggen
Thursday, April 1, 2004; Page A13

President Bush's top lawyer placed a telephone call to at least one of the Republican members of the Sept. 11 commission when the panel was gathered in Washington on March 24 to hear the testimony of former White House counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke, according to people with direct knowledge of the call.

White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales called commissioner Fred F. Fielding, one of five GOP members of the body, and, according to one observer, also called Republican commission member James R. Thompson. Rep. Henry A. Waxman, the ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, wrote to Gonzales yesterday asking him to confirm and describe the conversations.

Waxman said "it would be unusual if such ex parte contacts occurred" during the hearing. Waxman did not allege that there would be anything illegal in such phone calls. But he suggested that such contacts would be improper because "the conduct of the White House is one of the key issues being investigated by the commission."

White House spokesmen were unable to get a response from Gonzales.

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[neverforget]

1. A little coaching going on maybe?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. Good Henry..illegal..no unethical YES!

[diamond14]

3. threats?

White House counsel John Dean actually turned on nixon when he realized the crimes that nixon was involved with....yet look what bush* White House counsel does....



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ex parte

adjective, adverb

involving one side only: made or undertaken on behalf of only one of the parties involved in a court case

[Pale_Rider]

4. Ex parte communication on a commission ...

... are usually required to be part of the public record if they have occurred. In some cases I believe that commissioners have been removed if they had failed to do so.

Sounds like the White House is trying to influence the interpretation of Clarke's testimony.

I'm not an attorney though I did take a graduate intro course in law.

[yardwork]

5. Un-effing-believable.

Jim Thompson is the one who had a hissy fit and flounced out of the hearing. I guess his WH talking points didn't work as well as advertised.

[Zo Zig]

6. The record

Waxman has been building on this crew is huge. He has been doing the heavy lifting for so long, when will the sum exceed the parts? Hell of a report when it comes out.
There is a Nixonsonian stench coming from the White House.

[maggrwaggr]

12. Nixon smells like a rose compared to these guys

Nixon was like someone who wrote a bad $20 check compared to, say, John Gotti.

[0007]

17. Aw yes, and Spiro Agnew looks like a ten dollar whore in comparison

'Tis an indescribable stench that far exceeds Watergate

[revcarol]

7. And they are touting this ex-Enron lawyer for the Supreme Court.

Time for lawyers to police their own!!

And take Ken Starr with you.

Now I know why lawyers have such a bad name.

[TiredTexan]

9. The first thing let's do.............

is kill all the lawyers.

Just remember the context of Shakespeare's remark.

And remember that Bush was rejected at UT Law School because of his bad grades (he was later accepted at Harvard) and that he hates lawyers.

We're not all bad. Really.

[revcarol]

11. Sorry, not into killing lawyers. We need them to help us get compensation

for product liability and negligence!!

The ones Bush associates with and promotes are such SLUGS.(%^&*^%$$%&*()))*(^&^%$#$$&&**((*&& SLUGS.)

[TiredTexan]

8. Ex parte communications

are prohibited in court cases and involve one party or its attorney communicating with the judge or the jury without the other side present. I just wish that the GOP was the ex parte.

[tedoll78]

10. I'd propose that we fill CNN's inbox with emails containing this link..

but something tells me that the student kidnapping recovery is much, much more important to our nation than something so trivial..

:eyes:

[BrotherBuzz]

13. Henry Waxman is on a hitting streak...

He's been hitting singles, stand-up doubles, and a couple of triples, but he never gets to score because there's nobody behind him that's got a decent stick. Wake up dem congresspeople!

Sorry about the baseball metphor, but it's just that time of year.
Go Giants!

[calimary]

25. Henry's my guy! I call him TOLL FREE (HINT!), just about every day

to urge him onward.

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[DeepModem Mom]

14. kick

[xchrom]

15. just outrageous!

you know they called lehman as well.

[Cooley Hurd]

16. Jeebus! Rule-of-law means NOTHING to these fascists...

Okay, maybe it wasn't illegal, but it sure was inappropriate! :grr:

[Skeptical Democrat]

18. Maybe it was an innocent phone call

Like asking him to go duck hunting with him, Cheney and Scalia.

[Ryan10]

19. If there was a cancer on the Nixon presidency...

this bunch has Ebola, Aids and the flesh eating bacteria all rolled into one!

[The Stranger]

20. Excellent response by Waxman.

This is exactly what needs to be investigated in the first place.

[74dodgedart]

21. More and more Watergate like every day....

The next move is to fire the commission

[atre]

23. The commission would have to be more than window-dressing

before Bush even considering doing that.

[PurityOfEssence]

22. "Nice face ya got there; wouldn't want to see it burn to ground, wouldja?

Hey, things happen.

Gangsters, pure and simple, that's what they are.

[KittyWampus]

24. "According To One Observer" Who Is The Informant?

Someone leaked this info?

[DeepModem Mom]

26. kick