Waxman calls for release of FBI interviews with Bush and Cheney.»

[babylonsister]

Our Democratic pitbull strikes again! :applause:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/03/waxman-calls-for-release-of-fbi-interviews-with-bush-and-cheney/

Waxman calls for release of FBI interviews with Bush and Cheney.»

In a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey today, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, calls on the Justice Department to turn over FBI interviews of President Bush and Vice President Cheney taken during the course of the Libby investigation. From Waxman’s letter:

The interviews with senior White House officials also raise other questions about the involvement of the Vice President. It appears from the interview reports that Vice President Cheney personally may have been the source of the information that Ms. Wilson worked for the CIA. Mr. Libby specifically identified the Vice President as the source of his information about Ms. Wilson. None of the other White House officials could remember how they learned this information.

New revelations by former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan raise additional questions about the actions of the President and the Vice President. Mr. McClellan has stated that “{t}he President and Vice President directed me to go out there and exonerate Scooter Libby.” He has also asserted that “the top White House officials who knew the truth — including Rove, Libby, and possibly Vice President Cheney — allowed me, even encouraged me, to repeat a lie.” It would be a major breach of trust if the Vice President personally directed Mr. McClellan to mislead the public.

Waxman requests that Mukasey provide the FBI interviews to the committee by June 10. Read the full letter here.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. So many things seem to be coming unglued for them lately...

the Siegelman story, the other USA stories...

but of course we seemed to be on the verge of a Great Unraveling so many times in the past, it's hard to build up faith that this one will be the Big One. Charlie Brown & the football, ya know.

[babylonsister]

3. The option is to give up, and I just can't,, and won't.

All that 'hope' stuff resonates with me.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. I have by no means given up, but

I seem to have made a career out of fighting for lost causes, always ready to pick myself up out of the gutter and charge off into the next one.

[babylonsister]

8. I didn't mean to insinuate that, Jackpine. And

I'm the queen of lost causes, especially after having been so informed the past few years. Maybe the tide will be turning soon.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Hell, I'll be out there pushing water with my hands,

trying to MAKE a goddamn tide.

[theoldman]

2. Mukasey will figure out a way to get around this.

He will do everything he can to protect Bush and his pals. Too bad that Bill Clinton did not have someone to do the same for him.

[ladjf]

5. I doubt that Mukasey will allow any incriminating evidence to be

turned over to Congress. Either the requested docs will be denied or altered.

[Kingofalldems]

6. I would assume Fitzgerald has a copy of each

Am I wrong?

[babylonsister]

7. I would think so, too. I wonder if he's been approached? nt