Yes! Comey has been asked to testify re: wiretapping!!!

[fooj]

http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Now we are getting somewhere!

Peace.

[ProSense]

1. Ah, bright spots! n/t

[stepnw1f]

2. What Exactly Happens When/If Bush Invokes Executive Priviledge?

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. The you better get ready

to RUMBLE...

[fooj]

5. Good question. I'll try and get the answer...

Peace.

[HereSince1628]

12. basically it turns into a tug of war between the WH and Congress or

Congress folds. I don't have the sense that the Republicans want to struggle over this with the WH.

[BR_Parkway]

26. That's why Feingold kept hammering Gonzo for a str8 answer on

if the WH would object to Comey or Ashcroft testifying considering they were allowing Gonzo himself to be there.

[Rainscents]

4. Oh, that is great news!

Fooj, you're right on top of informations and the links, thanks!

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

6. Thanks for that!

:hi: Such good news!

[fooj]

7. 'Aint it a kick in the pants?

:toast:

Sure as hell needed one!

Peace.

[Patsy Stone]

9. I wanna see Ashcroft and Hadley there also.

Because I'm greedy. :)

:toast:

[fooj]

10. Greedy is good.

:hi:

[MissWaverly]

8. Newsweek 2/6/06 page 35 headline Palace Revolt

Comey's farewell speech, delivered in the Great Hall of the Justice Dept., contained all of the predictable if heartfelt, appreciations. But mixed in among the platitudes was an unusual passage. Comey, thanked "people who came to my office, or my home, or called my cell phone late at night, to quietly tell me when I was about to make a mistake; they were the people commited to getting it right-and to doing the right thing-whatever the price. These people," said Comey, "know who they are. Some of them did pay a price for their commitment to right, but they wouldn't have it any other way."

[fooj]

11. Thanks, MissWaverly! I have some faith in this guy, don't you?

Peace.

[MissWaverly]

13. Yes, indeed

These justice department lawyers (from Newsweek article 2/2/06 Palace Revolt page 36)
backed by their intrepid boss Comey, had stood up to the hard-liners, centered in the
office of the vice president, who wanted to give the president virtually unlimited powers in the war on terror. Demanding that the White House stop using what they saw as farfetched
rationales for riding roughshod over the law and the constitution, Goldsmith and the others
fought to bring government spying and interrogation methods within the law.

[LiberalAndProud]

21. I could really fall for this guy...

Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey


On October 3, 2003, President George W. Bush nominated Jim Comey to serve as Deputy Attorney General, he was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on December 9, 2003, and the President signed his commission on December 11, 2003. Prior to becoming Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Comey served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from January 2002 to the time of his confirmation. From 1996 through 2001, Mr. Comey served as Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of the Richmond Division of the United States Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Mr. Comey was educated at the College of William & Mary (B.S. with Honors 1982, Chemistry and Religion majors) and the University of Chicago Law School (J.D. 1985). After law school, he served as a law clerk for then-United States District Judge John M. Walker, Jr. in Manhattan, and worked for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in their New York Office. He next joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where he worked from 1987 to 1993, eventually serving as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division.

As United States Attorney, Mr. Comey oversaw numerous terrorism cases and supervised prosecutions of executives of WorldCom, Adelphia, and Imclone on fraud and securities-related charges. Mr. Comey also created a specialized unit devoted to prosecuting international drug cartels.

As an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, he handled the Khobar Towers terrorist bombing case, arising out of the June 1996 attack on a U.S. military facility in Saudi Arabia in which 19 Airmen were killed. He has personally investigated and prosecuted a wide variety of cases, including firearms, narcotics, major frauds, violent crime, public corruption, terrorism, and organized crime. In the Southern District of New York, he served as lead prosecutor in United States v. John Gambino et al., a six-month mafia racketeering and murder trial in 1993.

- more -
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/comey-bio.html

[MissWaverly]

27. I believe there are those who will lead us out of darkness

[NoSheep]

14. Great news! Bring it on!

:bounce:

[bleever]

15. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

Yes, indeed!

:)

[fooj]

16. I believe.

Peace.

[MissWaverly]

18. I also believe

America has to turn back to the premise that the accused is innocent until proven guilty.

"Galloway: Yes, although there is an academic quality about it, Senator Levin, because you
have already found me guilty before you-before you actually allowed me to come here and
speak for myself." George Galloway-testimony before the US Senate: Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Investigations (5/17/05)

[Wheezy]

17. Ashcroft has too, I believe.

Can't remember where I read it, but Specter asked him.

[Nothing Without Hope]

19. ***PERMALINK plus excerpt - and Jane Hamsher WANTS US TO COMMENT:

http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006_02_05_firedoglake_archive.html#113952814629699645

Comey Asked by Specter to Testify Before Judiciary Committee

posted by Jane Hamsher @ 3:35 PM

Sources familiar with the potential witness list of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings into the NSA wiretapping scandal say that Arlen Specter has asked James Comey to appear before the Committee, and that Comey has expressed concern that his testimony would bring about a situation where the White House would invoke executive privilege.

For those not familiar with Comey, read Redd's superb post here (http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006_01_29_firedoglake_archive.html#113857504602284173). Comey was a Bush Administration appointee to the Justice Department who tangled with them almost from the day he arrived, challenging their positions on torture, illegal wiretapping and the CIA leak case. He appointed Patrick Fitzgerald and gave him the authority and the protection he needed in order to do his job. It was Comey who, when Ashcroft was sick in the hospital, refused to re-authorize the illegal NSA wiretaps in the first place. He eventually resigned from the Justice Department.

There can be no meaningful hearings by the Judiciary Committee or any other committee on this matter without the testimony of Comey who was so integrally involved in raising alarms about the whole affair.

If you would like to see Comey testify before the Committee please voice your opinion in the comments, they will be seen.

So far, there are 275 comments. Go add your own - as Jane says, IT WILL BE SEEN.

[fooj]

23. Thanks for Jane's link...

I left my comment! She's great, isn't she?:hi:

[Nothing Without Hope]

25. Yes, Jane's one of my favorites too. She really seems to hit just the

right points, and it's great that so many see the firedoglake pieces that she and ReddHedd write.

I've got some favorites at DU too! :hi:

[PassingFair]

20. Comey....

His name keeps popping up when the truth peeps through.

He is certainly an interesting character...

Senior VP at Lockheed now...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Comey

[fooj]

24. Fitzgerald's pal...

birds of a feather...

Peace.

[emulatorloo]

22. Kicking - EOM

[RazzleDazzle]

28. Please post the permalink.