LEAHY on the Senate Floor NOW "E-mails were not lost..." = SUBPOENAS

"White House officials deeply involved." E-mails found but the White house still not giving them up/

2 Ex-Bush Aides Subpoenaed in Attorneys Case
By DAVID STOUT
Published: June 13, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/washington/13cnd-attorneys.html?hp


WASHINGTON, June 13 — Two former White House officials were subpoenaed today as Congressional Democrats intensified pressure on the Bush administration over the dismissals of eight United States attorneys.

The Senate and House judiciary committees ordered Harriet E. Miers, the former White House counsel, and Sara M. Taylor, a former deputy assistant to President Bush and the White House director of political affairs, to appear before their panels.

Ms. Taylor was ordered to appear before the Senate committee on July 11. Ms. Miers, who was briefly a nominee for Supreme Court justice, was told to appear before the House panel the following day. The White House signaled, as it has before, that it will resist the subpoenas.

The committees had already voted to authorize such subpoenas, so it was not surprising that they decided today to go ahead and issue them. Still, the action stepped up the political confrontation over the dismissals, and over the general performance of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and the state of the Justice Department.

So far, the White House has said it will not make any current or former officials available to testify under oath ..........

and now begs the question, was this just a stonewall in the first instance. And if so, who obstructed justice this time?

rubber is about to meet the road

i must have missed it... not on c-span1 or 2...

cspan 3?

they have to appear? Is it a legal thing, scheduling, tactical, what...? :shrug:

It seems like 1 week would be more reasonable; although, I wish they would just say "be here tomorrow morning at 9:00 am, prepared to 'discuss'".

Help me educate myself, please.