Clinton administration subject to 1,052 subpoenas

[mistertrickster]

But the agenda (of Congressional oversight) was different during the Clinton administration. The government reform panel alone, for example, issued 1,052 subpoenas related to investigations of the Clinton administration and the Democratic National Committee from 1997 to 2002, and only 11 subpoenas related to allegations of Republican abuse.

The panel received more than 2 million pages of documents and heard from 44 Clinton administration officials, including two White House chiefs of staff, according to statistics culled by Democratic staff on the Government Reform Committee.

The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office has found that from October 1996 to March 1998 -- well before the impeachment hearings -- the Clinton White House staff had spent more than 55,000 hours responding to more than 300 congressional requests, and had produced hundreds of video and audio tapes, along with hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, to congressional investigators.

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The Energy and Commerce panel has not conducted aggressive inquiries into powerful industries under its jurisdiction such as oil, gas, and tobacco companies, Dingell and others have said.

Nor has the panel done a comprehensive inquiry into Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force, which played a critical role in giving tax breaks to a number of oil, gas, and nuclear companies.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/11/20/congress_reduces_its_oversight_role/?page=2

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Gee, how many of these 1,000 subpeonas did Clinton deny based on "executive priviledge"? I don't remember any . . .

[LiberalFighter]

1. How many did Burton issue?

[Toots]

2. He tried numerous times to claim not only "Executive Privilege" but Attorney Client Privilege as wel

He was overruled each and every time. His own personal council had to testify along with his chief of staff and many many of his close personal aides.

[mistertrickster]

3. Whoa! Got links handy for this? nt

[Toots]

6. Try this one

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/starr050698.htm

President Is Denied Executive Privilege
A federal judge has ruled that President Clinton cannot use the power of his office to block prosecutors from questioning his senior aides, rejecting Clinton's assertion of executive privilege in the Monica S. Lewinsky investigation, lawyers familiar with the decision said yesterday.
<snip>
Clinton invoked both executive privilege and attorney-client privilege to prevent Starr from asking deputy counsel Bruce R. Lindsey, communications adviser Sidney Blumenthal and other top officials about conversations regarding the Lewinsky case. According to the lawyers, Johnson also dismissed the attorney-client privilege claim on the grounds that Clinton could not use government-paid White House lawyers to aid his defense in a criminal probe.

[On the Road]

4. The Claim of Attorney/Client Privilege Was Solid

I can't believe the Republicans tried to destroy that. It was another one of their throwaway, thoughtless push to overturn any precedent that was momentarily incovenient.

I don't remember the other claim of executive privilege. But I do believe Clinton ever repudiated subpoenas. Am I wrong?

[Toots]

7. Check this out

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/starr050698.htm

President Is Denied Executive Privilege
A federal judge has ruled that President Clinton cannot use the power of his office to block prosecutors from questioning his senior aides, rejecting Clinton's assertion of executive privilege in the Monica S. Lewinsky investigation, lawyers familiar with the decision said yesterday.
<snip>
Clinton invoked both executive privilege and attorney-client privilege to prevent Starr from asking deputy counsel Bruce R. Lindsey, communications adviser Sidney Blumenthal and other top officials about conversations regarding the Lewinsky case. According to the lawyers, Johnson also dismissed the attorney-client privilege claim on the grounds that Clinton could not use government-paid White House lawyers to aid his defense in a criminal probe.

[mistertrickster]

10. Great. When I get a spare minute, it'd be really interesting to compare

how the Repubs treated Clinton with how Bush is treating Congress now.

[Uncle Joe]

5. I've come to the conclusion that much of the Clinton Witch Hunt

was primarily motivated as a *back door attempt to keep Al Gore from coming to power, because they didn't want the primary champion and staunch protector of the Internet to be President. The corporate media kept the fuel in the furnace through out the nineties on such trivial bull shit reporting slamming the Clintons and then Al Gore's integrity beginning in March of 99. Today the same corporate media which couldn't get enough of White Water, etc. etc. continuously ask the question "Can America elect a woman as President?" With the implication being if we don't vote for Hillary Clinton, we haven't evolved enough, never mind the issues, qualifications or record of achievement.



*See Big Brother television program for details.

[mistertrickster]

8. Interesting. The Corporate Media sure don't seem to have much

problem with getting behind Hillary, that's for sure.

As far as they're concerned, we need not even bother to vote . . .

[Uncle Joe]

9. The turnaround in attitude is astonishing to say the least. n/t

[dkofos]

11. I always thought it was just a partisan witch hunt.

[Uncle Joe]

12. Regarding many of the Republicans, I agree with you

however the corporate media as a group were acting on script, this included "liberal', "moderate" and "conservative" pundits, papers and programming, and they're still doing it to this day. The largest threat to corporate media's monopoly on information; hence power,influence and money comes from the Internet. One example of corporate media profits is the extraordinary cost of running for political office, particularly President, because of television advertising. The primary champion of the Internet was Al Gore, by keeping scandal albeit much of it manufactured, in the American People's consciousness for so many years, they could frame the 2000 election more along the lines of "honor and integrity", if this sounds familiar, it's because this is precisely what Bush ran on. They set the stage for him, now they're doing it again.