FBI Interviews of Bush, Cheney Subpoenaed

[Botany]

http://www.truthout.org/article/fbi-interviews-bush-cheney-subpoenaed?print

Washington - A House committee subpoenaed yesterday records of the FBI's interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer's name.

The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform demanded the documents from Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey days before former White House press secretary Scott McClellan is expected to testify about Cheney's role in leaking CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity to the news media in 2003.

Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman, a California Democrat, asked for the transcripts late last year and renewed his request earlier this month after the committee received an unedited transcript of grand jury testimony in which former Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was quoted as saying it was "possible" that Cheney had told him to leak Plame's name.

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McClellan, who's expected to testify Friday before the House Judiciary Committee, renewed questions about the leak with his book. He wrote that Bush and Cheney directed him to "exonerate" Libby in his daily news briefings and that Cheney may have been among the senior White House officials who knew the truth but encouraged the former spokesman "to repeat a lie." McClellan also contended that Bush told him he had authorized the leak of Plame's name.

[jtrockville]

1. House subpoenas are worthless. They've forfeited the power.

If the House plans to enforce their subpoenas, what's the point?

[patrice]

2. "possible"? in theory? i.e. Libby thinks Cheney has the legal authority to do such a thing?

Or, "possible" in fact, i.e. there were some circumstances in which Cheney may have done this.

[wurzel]

3. Dems are inceasingly pathetic.

Our elected Dems continue to just plain embarrass us. They should just shut up till after the election.