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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 11:58 AM
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House Panel Threatens Attorney General With Contempt
Source: CQPolitics

House Panel Threatens Attorney General With Contempt
A House panel Tuesday threatened Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey with contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena demanding FBI reports of an interview of Vice President Dick Cheney regarding the disclosure of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s covert status.

In a letter to Mukasey, Henry A. Waxman , D-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said his committee will take up a contempt resolution July 16.

“You have neither complied with this subpoena by its returnable date nor asserted any privilege to justify withholding documents from the committee,” Waxman wrote.

Waxman said the committee would no longer seek access to the FBI report on an interview with President Bush as originally sought “in deference to your concerns and in a further attempt at accommodation.”



Read more: http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=cqmidday-000002912045
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 12:02 PM
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1. I'm starting to think that
Edited on Tue Jul-08-08 12:04 PM by jimshoes
the whole thing is is an exercise in futility. They tell us to go fuck ourselves and then we do. I am starting to not even care. We're screwn, blewn, and tattooned.
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 12:08 PM
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5. I wouldn't mind if we were just blewn.
It's the tattooning that burns me up.
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Jefferson23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 12:13 PM
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8. I feel the same way, I am a grown man and it is the Democratic leadership
that has actually made me cry. At this point I don't get excited that anything will be done at all.
I truly despise Pelosi and I don't care who knows it.
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Lance_Boyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 12:05 PM
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2. Ooooh! Queen Nancy won't like that...
the whole damned lot of 'em are talking loud and saying nothing.

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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 12:07 PM
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3. "in deference to your concerns and in a further attempt at accommodation."
Edited on Tue Jul-08-08 12:07 PM by Hardhead
How's that working out for ya, Henry?
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 12:07 PM
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4. Mukasey is quaking in his boots
ooooooo.... contempt!
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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 12:11 PM
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6. Nancy Pelosi: No One is Holding anyone Accountable
and the Constitution is "off the table"!
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 12:12 PM
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7. Pelosi won't let 'em do anything about it except threaten
She's been compromised big time by the bushies. By giving her information about covert operations that violated the Geneva conventions, they have made her complicit, and in fact a partner in their criminal activities.

When the shit hits the fan (I still have faith that will happen someday) it will come out that she is as much a part of these crimes as those who actually committed them. She'll be sharing the dock in the Hague with the worst of the bush gang.

Or else, as I keep saying they have pictures of her with a goat.
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proud progressive Donating Member (358 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 12:38 PM
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9. :"pictures of her with a goat"
not true. some other four-legged critter, maybe, but not a goat - yuck!. remember, she is cleaning the swamp.
;-)
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 12:53 PM
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10. Stop talking about upholding the law. Do it, fer chrissakes!
:grr:
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 12:55 PM
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11. Wow, that tough 'ole Democratic Congress must be getting ready to put some
whup-ass on Mukasey who must be literally shaking in his boots. :D
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 12:57 PM
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12. Blah BLAHBLAH Blah Blah Blah BLAH Blah Blah Blah
BLAH BLAH BlahBlahBlah.

I think that about covers it.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 12:30 PM
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22. This too
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Kelvin Mace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 01:28 PM
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13. Political theatre
I believe action, not words.

Number of Bush cronies/accomplices punished by congress so far?

ZERO!

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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 01:30 PM
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14. Let's give Nancy Pelosi a headache
. . . until she gets out of the way.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 01:38 PM
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15. So what is going on in the wide world of sports today?
what's that? subpoena? pshaw.
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AlinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 03:15 PM
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16. Another phony threat. nt
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The Stranger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 03:20 PM
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17. Mukasey is Schumer and Feinstein's man.
Well done, Difi and Chuck!
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 07:44 PM
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18. Wow, they are already up to issuing threats?
How many years has this "investigation" been ongoing?
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fasttense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 06:21 AM
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19. Congress is irrelevant and Nancy helps make it so. n/t
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 07:09 AM
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20. Unless its inherent contempt it means nothing
I'm sure that the justice department would put that top on their list of priorities, NOT
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indypaul Donating Member (896 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 12:18 PM
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21. What, another contempt citation?
"Round up all the usual suspects."
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