NYT Editorial-It's Subpoena Time - It's Time To Deliver Subpoena To Rove-Make Him Testify Under Oath

[kpete]

Editorial
It’s Subpoena Time

Published: June 8, 2007

For months, senators have listened to a parade of well-coached Justice Department witnesses claiming to know nothing about how nine prosecutors were chosen for firing. This week, it was the turn of Bradley Schlozman, a former federal attorney in Missouri, to be uninformative and not credible. It is time for Senator Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, to deliver subpoenas that have been approved for Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers and their top aides, and to make them testify in public and under oath.

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Congress has now heard from everyone in the Justice Department who appears to have played a significant role in the firings of the prosecutors. They have all insisted that the actual decisions about whom to fire came from somewhere else. It is increasingly clear that the somewhere else was the White House. If Congress is going to get to the bottom of the scandal, it has to get the testimony of Mr. Rove, his aides Scott Jennings and Sara Taylor, Ms. Miers and her deputy, William Kelley.

The White House has offered to make them available only if they do not take an oath and there is no transcript. Those conditions are a formula for condoning perjury, and they are unacceptable. As for documents, the White House has released piles of useless e-mail messages. But it has reported that key e-mails to and from Mr. Rove were inexplicably destroyed. At the same time, it has argued that e-mails of Mr. Rove’s that were kept on a Republican Party computer system, which may contain critical information, should not be released.

This noncooperation has gone on long enough. Mr. Leahy should deliver the subpoenas for the five White House officials and make clear that if the administration resists, Congress will use all available means to get the information it needs.

more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/opinion/08fri1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Toots]

1. Yes they should but probably won't and even if they do the subpoenas will be ignored

And the Democratically controlled Congress will do the same thing they did when Condi ignored her subpoena.. I would give the Democrats the same question Ailes gave them with a twist. If they can't take on the Administration when that is their job how can we expect them to take on Al Qaeda?

[ThomWV]

4. That is why the Capitol Police exist

Imagine a shootout at the White House between Capitol Police sent to take Rove and Miers into custody and Secrete Service guards led down the halls by a shotgun wielding Cheney.

[ThomWV]

2. This DEMAND Should Be On The Front Page Of Every Paper In The Country

Get them in there and make them testify or put them in jail.

[gratuitous]

3. And who will the Times side with when the subpoenas are ignored?

When the loyal Bushies trot out the "national security" and "executive privilege" arguments to resist the subpoenas, will the Times continue to press for the truth, or will they once again obediently roll over and piddle on themselves at the thought of the Wise Men of Washington deigning to notice them, and meekly retire from the field, with a few nasty words for those presumptuous Democrats?