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Leahy to Mukasey: Can We Get Along?
By Paul Kiel - October 3, 2007, 11:59AM

Last month, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) had a simple message: the President's nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey, wasn't going anywhere until the administration finally handed over documents he'd long been seeking.

But now it appears that things are moving along, though it seems that the administration hasn't handed over anything.

In a letter this morning, Leahy listed roughly a dozen questions he wanted answers to -- all of them relating to whether Mukasey would lead the Justice Department differently from Alberto Gonzales (e.g. would he fire a large number of U.S. attorneys at the direction of White House political operatives?). We've posted that letter below.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004369.php

And while we're on the subject of dropping the ball:

U.S. Attorneys Investigation Waits on House Leadership
By Paul Kiel - October 3, 2007, 2:15PM

"The scandal at the Department of Justice has gone on long enough," said Rep. Rahm Emmanuel (D-IL) back in March. "Careers have been destroyed and legitimate public corruption cases have been derailed. It is time for accountability -- it is time for the truth."

Six months and several Department senior resignations later, it's a different time. The urgency is gone.

More than two months after the House Judiciary Committee passed contempt resolutions against White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and former counsel Harriet Miers for ignoring committee subpoenas, it's still unclear when, or if, Democrats will hold a vote on the full floor.

The leadership has indefinitely delayed taking up the issue. House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) told The Politico last month, “I don’t think anything is going to happen on that for a while,” and couldn't offer a range. Three weeks later, that hasn't changed.

And apparently scheduling concerns are not all that's at issue. A source familiar with the ongoing discussions told TPMmuckraker that getting the leadership to bring the contempt resolutions to the floor at all is an "uphill struggle."

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004339.php

And finally we have:

Contempt Watch: 160 days since Condoleezza Rice ignored Congressional subpoena

96 days since Josh Bolten ignored a Congressional subpoena to produce documents.
82 days since Harriet Miers ignored a Congressional subpoena to appear.
61 days since Karl Rove ignored a Congressional subpoena to appear and produce documents.
61 days since Scott Jennings ignored a Congressional subpoena to appear and produce documents.

When will Congress act on this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1961703

A question for the Dems on the Hill: what the hell are you doing up there? Very little of it is in line with what we sent you there to do. When does accountability come into the picture? Does any of this mean anything to you? Hello? Is there anybody home?