BREAKING: Top White House Officials Subpoenaed Over Attorney Scanda

[MagickMuffin]

ThinkProgress has more updates....

Former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former top Karl Rove aide Sara Taylor, who served as White House political director before resigning last month, have been issued subpoenas over their connections to the U.S. attorney scandal.

UPDATE: These are the first subpoenas delivered to the White House regarding the attorney firings. The House Judiciary Committee issued the subpoena to Miers, and the Senate Judiciary Committee issued the subpoena to Taylor. Emails showing Taylor and Miers deeply involved in the Justice Department’s response to the scandal were released last night.

[grasswire]

1. who accepted them?

I'm surprised they made it through the WH gate.

[northernsoul]

2. who served them?

If memory serves, the US atty. for the district serves all subpoenas within D.C.

[MagickMuffin]

3. I have no clue since neither one works for the WH anymore

good question though, anyone....

[RufusTFirefly]

4. I'm wondering the same thing

Were the subpoenas actually served? The phrasing is ambiguous.

[MagickMuffin]

5. here's all the updates thus far....

UPDATE II: The AP reports, “The Senate Judiciary Committee’s subpoena for Taylor compels her to testify on July 11, while the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoena for Miers compels her testimony the next day.”

UPDATE III: CNN’s legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin reports, “The White House has made clear it will cite executive privilege for conversations that took place within the White House on the U.S. attorney matter, and if the people with those conversations happen to have subsequently left the White House, that doesn’t matter. They’re still going to cite executive privilege, and these people are not going to be allowed to testify anytime soon, it appears, if the White House remains as it has been. … Even if they want to testify.”

UPDATE IV: Statement from House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI): “Let me be clear: this subpoena is not a request, it is a demand on behalf of the American people for the White House to make available the documents and individuals we are requesting to help us answer the questions that remain. The breadcrumbs in this investigation have always led to 1600 Pennsylvania.”


Statement from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT): “The White House cannot have it both ways — it cannot stonewall congressional investigations by refusing to provide documents and witnesses, while claiming nothing improper occurred. … Some at the White House may hope to thwart our constitutional oversight efforts by locking the doors and closing the curtains, but we will keep asking until we get to the truth.”

[pnwmom]

9. How can the WH "not allow" EX-employees to testify?

What legal control does the WH have over former employees?

[MagickMuffin]

6. Link to Harriet's subpoena

http://websrvr80il.audiovideoweb.com/il80web20037/ThinkProgress/2007/Harriet%20Miers%20unstamped%20subpoena%20-%20blank%20method%20of%20service.PDF

[LSK]

7. oh yea, I'd love to see Harriet testify - K&R

[Patsy Stone]

8. Don't you love the smell of subpoenas in the morning?

[glitch]

10. Apocalypse Now, sweetie. Conyers, Leahy, Waxman, who is the fourth horseman? nt

[Patsy Stone]

11. I like Whitehouse.

:hi:

[glitch]

12. He'll do nicely. Although I thought you might say Fitz. ;) nt

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

13. When he becomes the junior Senator from Illinois

or the Atty General, yes! :toast:

[glitch]

15. Ah! Now there's a beautiful thought, cheers! nt

[snappyturtle]

14. This sounds wonderful! I hate to dampen spirits however, wasn't

condi subpoenaed? I bet the WH will stall this....forever. ???????