House Judiciary Hearing on Libby up at committee site:

[mod mom]

http://judiciary.house.gov/

(c-span not covering it)

[aquart]

1. The sound was too low for me to hear on my pc.

No idea why.

[mod mom]

2. My image is terrible but I can hear it.

[mod mom]

3. The speaker is blaming Fitz's narrative for Libby's outcome. He politicized it.

[aquart]

37. Willing to trade.

[mod mom]

4. Conyers to Adams: Any Clemency to an official in his own administration about

a conviction for obstructing wrongdoing in his administration?

[mod mom]

5. Wilson. IANAL but I am struck by the nature of the underlying crime. It was a breech of national

security. Fitz said there was a cloud over VP.

[mod mom]

6. Wilson: Cloud should be lifted. To Berman: Attys should be subject to Libby Motions.

He believes those circumstances should come ot bear. (ie he believes in dual justice)

[mod mom]

7. Lamar Smith enters into record all commutation by * as well as Clinton.

[mod mom]

8. Smith complains about partisanship. Asks about Clinton's commutaion/pardons.

[mod mom]

Smith complains about partisanship. Asks about Clinton's commutaion/pardons.

[orleans]

9. yeah, LOOK WHAT CLINTON DID!!!

(give me a fucking break--why don't these asswipes stay ON TOPIC?)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. Don't you know that Clinton is responsible for EVERYTHING?

:sarcasm:

[orleans]

11. as sara taylor says: "i don't recall" n/t

[orleans]

12. from the website

For Immediate Release
Contact: Jonathan Godfrey


July 10, 2007
Melanie Roussell



James Dau (Sánchez)



(Washington, DC) - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. and Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee Chairwoman Linda Sánchez confirmed that former White House counsel Harriet Miers will attend Thursday's hearing concerning the U.S. Attorney firings. The lawmakers also announced that because the Republican National Committee (RNC) has failed to agree to voluntarily turn over all the e-mails relevant to the investigation, the subcommittee will vote to authorize a subpoena for those materials following Miers' testimony on Thursday.

"I am looking forward to Ms. Miers testimony on Thursday, and hope that she will be forthcoming with us so that we may get to the bottom of this matter," Conyers said. "I am also hopeful that the RNC will fully cooperate with us. We have patiently sought to work with all parties to learn the truth concerning this very serious matter and will continue to do so.”

"I look forward to Ms. Miers testimony and am hopeful that a former Supreme Court nominee would be especially mindful of the importance of protecting the integrity of the justice system from partisan politics," Sánchez added.

Attached are copies of correspondence from Ms. Miers' attorney to Chairman Conyers regarding her testimony and Conyers' and Sánchez's response, sent today. In addition, attached are copies of correspondence from the White House to the RNC and from the RNC to Chairman Conyers concerning the e-mails sent or received on RNC e-mail accounts. All the letters are also available on the committee's Web site at:

Letters from the Chair and Responses



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[mod mom]

13. Brings up Berger. Libby prosecuted by Special Councel-Unfair.

[mod mom]

14. Nadler: Commutation undermines the trust in Government.

[orleans]

15. jerry nadler up. isn't he calling for a special prosecutor for gonzo?

[mod mom]

16. Nadler calls out that Valerie Wilson is a covert agent. Wilson says was covert & classified.

[orleans]

17. joe wilson talking: valerie was COVERT

[mod mom]

18. Sensenbrenner up: Thinks it is a waste of time. Pres can pardon/commute.

[annabanana]

20. He's still alive?. . . ugh

[Spazito]

31. Hmmm, Mr. Sensenbrenner didn't seem to have the same opinion

when the House Panel opened hearings on Clinton's pardons......hmmmm....how does one spell HYPOCRISY:

March 1, 2001
Web posted at: 12:32 p.m. EST (1732 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A House panel has opened a new round of hearings this afternoon into former President Bill Clinton's controversial late-term pardons, a day after reaching an agreement with Clinton's lawyer on viewing a list of donors to Clinton's library foundation.

The House Government Reform Committee has begun the new round of hearings, with three former top White House aides scheduled to appear before Chairman Dan Burton's panel to testify about the final days of decision-making that led to Clinton's last-minute pardons.

snip

Clinton, hoping to put the pardons scandal to rest, has waived any executive privilege claims and given his aides approval to testify freely when they appear before the panel.

(I just heard Conyers read the letter from Fielding re bush's claim of Executive Privilege on this wrt the Libby pardon.......I hope Congress makes the point that Clinton, under the same pressure WAIVED any Executive Privilege)

snip

The committee and a lawyer for Clinton reached an agreement Wednesday that will give congressional investigators access to a winnowed-down list of donors to the Clinton Library Foundation, one day before the committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on some of the pardons meted out by Clinton during his last hours as president.

more

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/02/28/clinton.library/

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

19. I don't like how Conyers didn't want to give Nadler a little more time. eom

[mod mom]

21. Sensenbrenner asks about Clinton pardons.

(Sometimes I wish the Dems would renounce Clinton's pardons to place blame solely on him instead of the entire party being held responsible.)

[annabanana]

22. Wilson is talking about how many resources were dried up

when Valerie was outed

[annabanana]

23. Coble (R) says that should be discussed some other time.

[annabanana]

24. Sheila Jackson-Lee up

[annabanana]

25. She is noting the BIG differences between Rich's pardon & this case.

[annabanana]

26. She thanks the Wilson's for their service

[annabanana]

27. and bemoans that we may NEVER find out why we are sending people to die over there

[annabanana]

28. Wilson "Commutation as Cover-up"

[annabanana]

29. She asks Adams how much Cheney had to do with the commutation.

[annabanana]

30. Conyers just got copy of Fielding letter.. saying WH won't give info

He put it in the record

[Spazito]

33. Hmm, let's see what Clinton did under the same circumstances....

seeing as the House Panel held hearings on Clinton's pardons (something the repubs have forgotten it seems):


"Clinton, hoping to put the pardons scandal to rest, has waived any executive privilege claims and given his aides approval to testify freely when they appear before the panel."

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/02/28/clinton.library/



Well, imagine that!

[annabanana]

32. damn.. I have to go out. . . anybody here?

[mod mom]

34. Delahunt: Something smelt because why the SOS Powell make this the centerpiece

[buzzard]

35. Hearing back on.n/t

[malaise]

36. Watching n/t