Cheney/Bush Stonewall Erection: "White House Will Deny New Request In Attorneys Probe"

[TahitiNut]

White House Will Deny New Request In Attorneys Probe
Bush to Defy Congress, Sources Say

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 8, 2007; Page A03

The White House has decided to defy Congress's latest demand for information regarding the dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys, sources familiar with the decision said yesterday. Such an action would escalate the constitutional struggle and propel it closer to a court showdown.

Senate and House committees have directed President Bush to provide by tomorrow a detailed justification of his executive privilege claims and a full accounting of the documents he is withholding. But White House counsel Fred F. Fielding plans to tell lawmakers that he has already provided the legal basis for the claims and will not provide a log of the documents, the sources said.

The standoff suggests that neither side is prepared to budge in the fight over documents and testimony in the widening U.S. attorney investigation. Officials in both camps said no serious negotiations are taking place to resolve the dispute. Fielding plans to follow up his letter by further asserting executive privilege later this week, the sources said, directing former White House aides Harriet E. Miers and Sara M. Taylor not to testify in response to congressional subpoenas.

The two sides increasingly believe that the matter will lead congressional Democrats to seek criminal contempt citations against the White House, which could result in a protracted court battle over the contours of the president's power to shield White House deliberations. Both sides insist that the other's legal position is weak and argue that this could be one of the most important test cases in years.

The impasse is leading to "a monumental clash between the executive and legislative branches of government," Taylor's attorney, W. Neil Eggleston, wrote in a letter sent yesterday to Fielding and leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "This clash may ultimately be resolved by the judicial branch."


White House counsel Fred F. Fielding is planning to direct former Bush aides not to testify in response to congressional subpoenas. (Mark Wilson - Getty Images)


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... but impeachment is of the table, right Nancy?? :eyes:

Is there ANYONE willing to take back our country? People of other nations should hold their noses when Americans pass by - we're an outlaw nation and we the people are without the necessary honor and courage to deserve a democracy. We're all complicit in every single second these criminal scofflaws are permitted to squat in the seats of power. (But, what the hell ... the music is nice, right? Bread and circuses.)

[Missy Vixen]

1. TahitiNut, I just want to know if the Democrats are "all in"

If they're all in, they'll either serve indictments, or they will send the Sergeant at Arms to arrest those who will not comply with their subpoenaes.

IMHO, YMMV.
Julie

[TahitiNut]

2. At this point, we shouldn't have to wonder.

At this point, they should be more afraid for their own safety than merely their over-inflated jobs. It's not just "where's the outrage?" it's "where's the blood in the streets?" We SHOULD be past outrage. We SHOULD be past disappointment. It's appalling.

[Rex]

3. Hear that sound? Those are the wheels coming off.

[pansypoo53219]

4. keep digging?

yep, that makes them look good.

[TahitiNut]

5. Any politician who benefits from corruption is, in my view, corrupt.

That INCLUDES members of an "opposition party" who lay back and celebrate the slow-leak disclosures of a criminally corrupt adminstration, doing so without speaking out loudly and taking the most conscientious actions they can possibly find, including impeachment, indictment, and imprisonment of the criminals.

Any (so-called) Democrat who thinks the Democratic Party need do NOTHING to benefit from the abominations by Republicans is, in my view, creditable with NOTHING. Under that faulty 'logic,' the Green Party (or any other party) should benefit even MORE since they have so much less authority to do anything about it.

[monmouth]

6. Anyone who stonewalls an erection should be severely punished....n/t