http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OKIFBO0&show_article=1&catnum=0 Waxman Threatens to Subpoena Andy Card
Apr 20 04:49 PM US/Eastern
By LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - If President Bush's former chief of staff can chat about the identifying of CIA agent Valerie Plame on Jon Stewart's comedy show, he can talk about it to the House oversight committee, the panel's chairman said Friday.
If Andy Card refuses, the panel will vote Wednesday on whether to compel his testimony with a subpoena, said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
White House Counsel Fred Fielding has declined to let Card testify.
"Mr. Fielding's position appears to be that it is appropriate for you to discuss these matters on 'The Daily Show' but not before a congressional committee," Waxman wrote to Card on Friday. "You will not be surprised to learn that I take a different view of this matter."
Waxman, chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote that if Card won't agree to appear voluntarily before Wednesday's meeting, the panel will vote on whether to issue him a subpoena.
Also being considered for a subpoena on a related issue: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Waxman wants to know what Rice knows about the administration's claim, later discredited, that Iraq sought uranium from Africa.
"I hope we can work together over the next week to schedule a voluntary appearance by you before the committee," Waxman wrote to Rice on Tuesday. "That would eliminate the need for the use of any compulsory process."
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