Rove deposed (Earlier Today) in U.S. attorney probe

Source: Politico

Rove deposed in U.S. attorney probe

Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove was deposed Tuesday by attorneys for the House Judiciary Committee, according to Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the panel’s chairman.

Rove’s deposition began at 10 a.m. and ended around 6:30 p.m, with several breaks, Conyers said.

Conyers would not comment on what Rove told congressional investigators, what the next step in the long-running Judiciary Committee investigation would be or whether Rove would face additional questioning.

“He was deposed today,” Conyers said in an interview. “That’s all I can tell you.”

Conyers’ panel had first subpoenaed Rove in 2007 as part of its probe into the firing of nine U.S. attorneys. But the Bush White House, citing executive privilege, refused to make Rove or White House
Counsel Harriet Miers available for any deposition.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24668.html#ixzz0Kcei8T0w&D


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24668.html

Bank that.

Was he under oath? No matter. He'll whiz all over the Bible. After all, he helped shred the Constitution. :thumbsdown:

They will surely send him a strongly worded letter. :)

add a scathing Mea Culpa at the end of that letter.


That will show him!!!!!


:+

If anyone in a position to do anything actually CARED
about the (heh heh heh) LAW, Karl Rove would have been in prison
years ago.

were transcripts kept, or was this one of those "friendly chats" with no records, no oath, no teeth?

"Rove’s deposition began at 10 a.m. and ended around 6:30 p.m"

No way he didn't tell some big fat ones.

Court reporters take down verbatim what is said. I am assuming that the term deposition was correctly used.

certainly meant nothing. Hatch Act?

It's kinda illegal to lie to Congress even when yoiu're not under oath, but you need the transcript to nail down the lies.

Hey....it's kinda illegal to torture people to death, but no one who ordered that has gotten in trouble for it.


Still it'll be interesting to see what was said.

can recall right now...." "I don't have a present recollection of those events." "That's privileged information."

And so on.

:dem:

... kay?

Thank you.

zero times

He needs to do life in prison along with the rest of the BushCo criminals.

Source: Raw Story - John Byrne

Judiciary Chairman won’t comment on what was asked, said

Former Bush White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove was deposed by lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee, Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) said in an interview Tuesday.

Rove’s deposition took place over a period of some eight and a half hours, beginning at 10 a.m. and ending around 6:30 p.m, ET — and the lawyers took several breaks, Conyers said.

Conyers wouldn’t say what Rove told investigators or whether Rove would appear before his committee again.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/07/rove-deposed-us-attorney/

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Don't know what to make of it. <shrugs>

-Diane

"I don't recall, I don't remember, I have no recollection...."

do not remember? polygraph time.

but it certainly is LATE.

so that he's get no coverage whatsoever.

did toxicology blood samples, and kept a lie detector on him. Did he meet with his 'people' in these breaks? Oh, yeah, it's congress. Conyers is good but someone else pulls the strings apparently. We can't spend the money to find out who robbed us of and in our country.

articles do not say what "conditions" if any...


snip:

Conyers’ panel had first subpoenaed Rove in 2007 as part of its probe into the firing of nine U.S. attorneys. But the Bush White House, citing executive privilege, refused to make Rove or White House Counsel Harriet Miers available for any deposition.

Conyers’ panel responded by filing a civil lawsuit against the White House and prevailed in district court last year but the appeals court had yet to address the issue.

With an agreement between the Obama White House, the Bush White House and House Judiciary Committee, the current Justice Department avoided having to choose sides in court and risk an appeals court precedent which could undercut executive privilege or Congress's right to investigate alleged government malfeasance.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24668.html#ixzz0KczeG7Th&D

begins with a single step."

Let's hope this is one of many thousands of small cracks that eventually make the wall come tumbling down.

show and bring up the Truthout story for the umpteenth time.

Sorry,but I've heard too many times how Conyers was going to go after the B* admin, for the war and the stealing of the elections.

Wake me up when something real happens.

July 7, 2009, 9:19 pm
Rove Is Interviewed in Judiciary Panel Inquiry
By The New York Times
Karl Rove, the senior political adviser to President George W. Bush, was interviewed in a closed session on Tuesday by investigators for the House Judiciary Committee about his role in the dismissal of nine federal prosecutors in December 2006, a person briefed on the matter said on Tuesday.

Mr. Rove had been expected to answer the committee’s questions under an agreement reached after nearly two years of legal wrangling over his testimony,

Who knows, maybe something will come of it. :) nt

Luskin called it an "interview" as well yet Conyers said he was deposed. So who to believe?

The agreement reached with Conyers last March:



http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rove_agrees_to_testify_under_oath_0304.html

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That's what I thought.

This is one of those "for public consumption" moments. Hell, I'm surprised that they even had time for it considering all the "looking forward" that's going on in D.C. nowadays.

Make him talk until the entire criminal enterprise is brought down and held up as a lesson to all future rethugs not to fall into the dark side again.

Apparently, Democratic poo-bahs don't give a shit about Don Siegelman and the other political prisoners Bush/Rove/Gonzales locked up.

No sunshine + no transcript = Soviet justice.

When the Rethuglicans get back power someday and they will, the Dems who are letting Rove off the hook will rue the white wash because many of them will recieve the Rove railroad treatment too.

Wasn't it Holder who projected that, "we're a nation of cowards." ?

assholes

:grr:

to the public stocks? Time to bring them back. Let's not dispose of any toxic waste for a while so we can fling it at him.

in violation of record keeping laws.

He can lie through his teeth on this. Or say "I don't recall" seventy different ways.

That might explain the hailstorm that knocked out parts of NY yesterday, too ...

What is Karl Rove's relation with now imprisoned CIA Dusty Foggo and deseased DC madam Palfrey. Foggo & Cheney both lived in Dallas and Karl Rove was 'Bush's Brain' as both Bush's were running for office at the time - 1993.
At the time I myself, owner of an escort service, was asked by Houston FBI to blackmail politicians via Sex at the same time Palfrey joined Foggo. Also a madam from Alabama (Siegleman case) was imprisoned then found hanging in a federal jail cell in Brazoria County, Tx. (Tom Delay's precinct). A madam in Dallas was given a Life sentence in Bangkok - where U.S. Sex Workers were being targeted and sent to. Madam Brandi Britton was found hanging in Maryland last year.

Prostitution, Blackmail, and Political Corruption
By Agents of the United States

Sex Slavery, Forced Prostitution, Human Trafficking, extortion, blackmail―of the most egregious kind―of U.S. Citizens by the U.S. Government

My name is Robin Head, previous owner of Playboy Escorts in Houston, Texas. I was approached by various law enforcement agency's, FBI, ATF, etc... who wanted me to abet them in entrapping "State and political officials" having sex so they could extort, control and blackmail them, not to charge them with misdemeanor prostitution. At the same time, women at my service were being tricked and trafficked overseas to Bangkok and called me collect from a jail in Vienna.

A madam from Alabama was found hanging in a federal jail cell in nearby Brazoria County. When I refused to abet in the extortion, I was thrown in jail, no bond, a 'Life' sentence filed on me, and then my son and family were harassed and attacked endlessly in some kind of gang like Mafia style.

I went to the FBI, but it was like reporting the devil to the witch, they said they would help me but only if I would help them, again, to set up officials. They had no interest in the corruption aspect. Some very high profile names were involved, people seen on TV news commentary.

Who are these agents with this monstrous agenda and what do they want? This is not a left/right wing thing it is a most vicious entity in this country.

This country has become as fearful as any other 3rd world country when it comes to reporting crime to officials just exactly like in Russia, Iraq, Africa, Mexico, etc... where it is the officials that are the perpetrators of the crimes, kidnapping, ransom, drugs, and it is dangerous to report to them.

http://fbicorruption.250free.com

http://www.defraudingamerica.com/robin_head.html