Conyers to Cheney: Butt out

[maddezmom]

Conyers to Cheney: Butt out
In a letter sent today, House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers and Constitution, civil rights, and civil liberties subcommittee chairman Jerrold Nadler "strongly urge" Vice President Dick Cheney to recuse himself from any discussions of a pardon for Scooter Libby.

Conyers and Nadler say Cheney's comments about Libby's sentence -- he said this week that he hopes "our system" will "return a final result consistent with what we know of this fine man" -- suggest that he's blurring the line between his professional duties and his personal interests, especially in light of the fact that the investigation Libby obstructed involved the actions of the vice president himself.

"As the federal prosecutor stated in his closing arguments, the evidence at trial revealed that there was 'a cloud' over certain aspects of your conduct," Conyers and Nadler write.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/06/07/letter/index.html?source=rss

[Greeby]

1. Not as much impact as "go fuck yourself"

But it'll do