COURT GRANTS-CREW'S REQUEST - TO DEPOSE CHENEY CHIEF OF STAFF DAVID ADDINGTON

[kpete]

CREW TO DEPOSE CHENEY CHIEF OF STAFF DAVID ADDINGTON
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24 Sep 2008 // Washington, DC – Yesterday, in Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), et al. v. Cheney, et al., the court granted CREW’s request to take the depositions of David Addington, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, and Nancy Smith, the National Archives and Records Administration official responsible for presidential papers under the Presidential Records Act.

The court rejected the government's arguments that no discovery is warranted because they have demonstrated full compliance with the Presidential Records Act. Based on three White house declarations, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly questioned whether the vice president is preserving all vice presidential records, or only two subsets of records. The depositions must take place by October 6, 2008.

Anne Weismann, CREW’s chief counsel said today, "With this decision, there is now nowhere for the White House to duck and hide. We are hopeful that these depositions will allow us to finally uncover whether these important records are being preserved or deliberately lost to future generations."

http://citizensforethics.org/node/34258

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

depose...such a lovely word

[dana_b]

2. good!!

"preserved or deliberately lost" - haha, yeah. I think we know the answer to that.

[yodermon]

3. oh whatever. They just won't show up.

and Mukasey will decline to prosecute contempt.
Game over.

[wryter2000]

4. Roast that bastard

And hook up the electrodes for whenever he tells a lie. The creep's even more loathsome than Cheney himself. If that's possible.

[bushmeister0]

5. The 3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT showing up should take of that little problem.

[OakCliffDem]

6. Collect and preserve the evidence that will send Cheney to prision

[WhiteTara]

7. yes

[barbtries]

8. this is big news

i gotta wonder how much other big news is flying under the radar.

[pleah]

9. K&MR Good! n/t

[Piewhacket]

10. He will not show up ...

for if he did, he would be obliged to decline to answer
on grounds that his answers would tend to incriminate him.

not showing up is easier.