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Ear to the Ground

Sen. Leahy Determined to Subpoena Karl Rove

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Posted on Mar 18, 2007
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Sen. Patrick Leahy, left, was joined by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, on Sunday’s “This Week.”

Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vt., made it clear on Sunday’s “This Week” that he is determined to get to the bottom of the U.S. attorneys scandal and, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, will use subpoenas to do it: “I want testimony under oath. I am sick and tired of getting half-truths on this.” Leahy said he wanted to hear from Karl Rove, Harriet Miers and other administration officials linked to the firings.


 

  • Watch Leahy make his case on ABC News’ “This Week.”
  • AP via Yahoo:

    The Bush White House was expected to announce early this week whether it will let political strategist Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers and other officials testify or will seek to assert executive privilege in preventing their appearance.

    The chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., last week delayed a vote on the subpoenas until Thursday as the president’s counsel, Fred Fielding, sought to negotiate terms. But on Sunday, Leahy said he had not met Fielding nor was he particularly open to any compromises, such as a private briefing by the administration officials.

    “I want testimony under oath. I am sick and tired of getting half-truths on this,” Leahy said. “I do not believe in this, ‘We’ll have a private briefing for you where we’ll tell you everything,’ and they don’t.”

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    By Dale Headley, March 19, 2007 at 6:23 pm #
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    If Bush is smart, he will realize that the damage to himself would be greater by not allowing Rove to testify.  That is why I expect him to not allow Rove to testify.  This should be hereafter known as “Bush’s Law”.

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    By mark, March 19, 2007 at 3:10 pm #
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    Many are saying (including CBS) that Gonzales is sure to go. My guess is that Bush will try desperately to save Gonzales and Rove. If they can pin all the tampering with investigations on lower levels then all they need is a new Libby, Sampson. They must feel strong that Leahy won’t ask for impeacment.

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    By JohnDWoodSr, March 19, 2007 at 11:35 am #
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    Watching sworn testimony from Rove and Miers will make good theater, but will only show that Bush hired a bunch of amnesiacs. Leahy will never get any useful information from these obfuscating “disassemblers”.The best he can hope for is that either or both will plead the “Fifth”.

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    By Rob Tornoe, March 19, 2007 at 8:20 am #
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    I’m a cartoonist from New Jersey, and here’s my take on what’s happening to Karl Rove.

    To view the cartoon, go to http://tornoe.blogspot.com.

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    By SuGee, March 19, 2007 at 7:40 am #
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    Of course executive priviledge will be invoked.  Both the president and the vice president are criminals as has been consistently portrayed by all their political appointees; what would stop them from furthering their criminal actions?  For example, executive priveledge was invoked for the 2001"energy talks” that Cheney had with the oil companys and lobbyists whereby he probably told them that we would attack Iraq and that was before 911.  How’s that for national security?  Supeonas are necessary and then impeachment should begin because I’m sure that these 2 war criminals will stonwall any attempt to testify.

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    By Steve Hammons, March 19, 2007 at 7:01 am #
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    In the 2006 election, Americans elected Democrats not only because of issues surrounding the invasion and occupation of Iraq, but also of the utter corruption on nearly all levels by the Bush administration.

    Rove, Gonzales ... the list of corrupt officials associated with Bush and Cheney seems to be huge.

    It is time for the new Congress to conduct assertive investigations. For more on this, see:

    “An urgent task for the new Congress: Conduct necessary inquiries and investigations properly”

    By Steve Hammons
    Columnist, PopulistAmerica.com
    Populist Party of America
    October 22, 2006

    http://www.populistamerica.com/an_urgent_task_for_the_new_congress

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    By Druthers, March 19, 2007 at 6:18 am #
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    It is about time!  How much longer will Congress continue being a Bush junkie?

    It is past time to go into rehab before we all get carried off to a camp.

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    By zz ziled, March 19, 2007 at 2:14 am #
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    Related story on NPR’s “On the Media”—the story reports of statistics that were gathered by an independent researcher and these statistics appears to dovetail directly to the Bush plan to fire US Prosecutors around the country, if they ‘did not’ politically play ball with the GOP and were ‘too’ independent.

    ———————————————————
    “Political Profiling for selected Prosecution in the Gonzales Dept of Justice?”

    The Gonzales 85
    March 16, 2007

    http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/03/16/01

    If 8 prosecutors were fired because they weren’t hard enough on Democrats, does that mean the other 85 were? Maybe. Communications professor John Cragan has found that Bush’s Justice Dept. has prosecuted 7 times as many Democrats as Republicans.

    [Source: http://www.onthemedia.org/ NPR’s “On the Media”]
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    By Kol Klink, March 18, 2007 at 8:59 pm #
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    Thank you Senator Leahy.

    I find it amusing that Carl Rove, the modern incarnation of Niccolo Machiavelli, Is to be subpoeaned and asked questions under oath by Senator Leahy’s committe. After all, the subpoena did not exist in Niccolo’s ancient Italy. In those times of yore a bit of bad advice from a confident to his prince would be followed by the confident’s head rolling down the castle steps. But I will be satisfied by the modern counterpart of ‘heads will roll.’ I believe its about time that Rove found out what most of us have known for a long time…‘what goes around comes around.’

    And a hardy welcome back to Washington for Harriet Miers! Returning not to take up a post on the Supreme Court, as Bush the Court Jester wanted, but to take her place in the docket beside Mr Rove. Ya gotta love it!

    All in all, some very good news for a change. Keep up the good work Mr Leahy and Truth Dig!

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    By Quy Tran, March 18, 2007 at 8:45 pm #
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    Good show, Senator Leahy. Please subpoena Karl Rove then bring him to justice. This damned guy had created lots of problems within and outside this criminal administration. There’s no more time to keep absolute silence. You have to speak the voice of the American.

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    By klad, March 18, 2007 at 8:37 pm #
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    Hooray for St. Pat!!!

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